Oh well. We're due for about 1-2 billion deaths anyway
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Nov. 8, 2011 5:21 p.m. Taiden Dork
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Nov. 8, 2011 5:49 p.m. aircooled SuperDork
The "lame"stream media doesn't cover these things!!
You need to watch RocksNews for fair and balanced coverage of all mineral related news.
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Nov. 8, 2011 5:56 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork
thing is.. not only would it have to be on the correct path to hit earth.. it would also need to be at the right angle. Ask the soviets about how many astronauts they bounced off of the atmosphere from too shallow a descent
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Nov. 8, 2011 6:01 p.m. stuart in mn SuperDork
aircooled wrote:
The "lame"stream media doesn't cover these things!!
I wonder what asteroid Brian Williams was just talking about on the NBC news, then.
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Nov. 8, 2011 7:13 p.m. familytruckster Reader
We're not dead yet are we?
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Nov. 8, 2011 7:23 p.m. aircooled SuperDork
stuart in mn wrote:
aircooled wrote:
The "lame"stream media doesn't cover these things!!
I wonder what asteroid Brian Williams was just talking about on the NBC news, then.
He was just pandering to his pro-mineral bosses and only telling you what the asteroid wanted you to know!
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Nov. 8, 2011 9:04 p.m. carguy123 SuperDork
Stop and think about this. Here's a big rock getting pretty dang close. We always think it couldn't happen, but in the overall scheme of things a golf ball sized meteor hitting this thing a few billion miles away and it would be in our laps.
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Nov. 8, 2011 11:11 p.m. Trans_Maro Dork
In reply to carguy123:
So would a billion other things that go flinging through our solar system every year.
If you start worrying about it, you'll probably go crazy.
Shawn
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Nov. 9, 2011 2:13 a.m. novaderrik Dork
carguy123 wrote:
Stop and think about this. Here's a big rock getting pretty dang close. We always think it couldn't happen, but in the overall scheme of things a golf ball sized meteor hitting this thing a few billion miles away and it would be in our laps.
maybe a golfball sized rock hit it a billion years ago, which caused it to not hit us this time..
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Nov. 9, 2011 4:59 a.m. JoeyM SuperDork
Dr. Hess wrote:
6:30 eastern. A non-event (this time). Just an aircraft carrier sized rock buzzing by at 29,000 mph. A miss is as good as a mile, right?
The "fringe" media has been on this for some time, predicting TEOTWAWKI, etc. Probably why the MSM has been ignoring it mostly. Remember what the MSM did for Y2K.
I think that MSM saved us from Y2K...if they had not made such a big deal about it we would not have had the resources thrown into fixing it
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Nov. 9, 2011 9:32 a.m. Trans_Maro Dork
JoeyM wrote:
I think that MSM saved us from Y2K...if they had not made such a big deal about it we would not have had the resources thrown into fixing it
We spent millions, Russia probably spent about $20 and they're still here.
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Nov. 9, 2011 9:44 a.m. 92CelicaHalfTrac SuperDork
JoeyM wrote:
Dr. Hess wrote:
6:30 eastern. A non-event (this time). Just an aircraft carrier sized rock buzzing by at 29,000 mph. A miss is as good as a mile, right?
The "fringe" media has been on this for some time, predicting TEOTWAWKI, etc. Probably why the MSM has been ignoring it mostly. Remember what the MSM did for Y2K.
I think that MSM saved us from Y2K...if they had not made such a big deal about it we would not have had the resources thrown into fixing it
MSM saves lives!
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Nov. 9, 2011 9:50 a.m. iceracer SuperDork
A near miss, only something like 200 thousand miles.
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Nov. 9, 2011 9:53 a.m. carguy123 SuperDork
novaderrik wrote:
carguy123 wrote:
Stop and think about this. Here's a big rock getting pretty dang close. We always think it couldn't happen, but in the overall scheme of things a golf ball sized meteor hitting this thing a few billion miles away and it would be in our laps.
maybe a golfball sized rock hit it a billion years ago, which caused it to not hit us THIS TIME..
Fixed it for you.
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Nov. 9, 2011 10:10 a.m. Conquest351 HalfDork
Did anyone get to see it?
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Nov. 9, 2011 10:29 a.m. JoeyM SuperDork
Trans_Maro wrote:
JoeyM wrote:
I think that MSM saved us from Y2K...if they had not made such a big deal about it we would not have had the resources thrown into fixing it
We spent millions, Russia probably spent about $20 and they're still here.
The company I worked for at the time had a full time employee who was combing through old COBOL code and updating it. (I know because I wrote a few perl scripts to help him find some stuff, even though I was not involved with Y2K planning.) That's where the Y2K money was spent in that company. They wanted to keep using the same software, and wanted it to function after the date change.
Some companies chose a different path, throwing out the legacy code and replacing it with newer programs and systems. Either path is valid if you have old code that's not going to function. I was unaware that Russia had spent less money than us on Y2K, but suspect that Russia - with lots of new money - had lots of newer software, too.....newer software that didn't have the same issues..
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Nov. 9, 2011 12:16 p.m. Twin_Cam SuperDork
alex wrote:
I would much rather hear about a rock inconsequentially hitting Paris Hilton.
FTFY.
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Nov. 9, 2011 12:34 p.m. Dr. Hess SuperDork
Most people spell COBOLSUX incorrectly.
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Nov. 9, 2011 12:49 p.m. Capt Slow Dork
Apophis is the one that gets my attention.
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Nov. 9, 2011 10:44 p.m. lewbud Reader
mad_machine wrote:
thing is.. not only would it have to be on the correct path to hit earth.. it would also need to be at the right angle. Ask the soviets about how many astronauts they bounced off of the atmosphere from too shallow a descent
Seeing how the Soviets never left low Earth orbit, the answer would be zero, zip, and nada. Now they did manage to lose some crews during the descent after atmospheric reentry.
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Nov. 10, 2011 7:02 a.m. Duke SuperDork
carguy123 wrote:
Stop and think about this. Here's a big rock getting pretty dang close. We always think it couldn't happen, but in the overall scheme of things a golf ball sized meteor hitting this thing a few billion miles away and it would be in our laps.
Coincidentally or not, HDnet was playing a not-yet-released movie called Melancholia last night. In it, a giant blue planet that has been supposedly hiding behind the sun mysteriously pops out and centerpunches the Earth.
Skip it after the first 5 minutes or so, unless you have a yearning to see Kirsten Dunst's breasts. The first 5 minutes are visually and musically beautiful. Everything that follows (except Kirsten's chest) is completely non-understandable, and her character is so friggin annoying that I'm sure the boob scene was just put in so you wouldn't totally hate her.
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Nov. 10, 2011 7:51 a.m. joey48442 SuperDork
92CelicaHalfTrac wrote:
JoeyM wrote:
Dr. Hess wrote:
6:30 eastern. A non-event (this time). Just an aircraft carrier sized rock buzzing by at 29,000 mph. A miss is as good as a mile, right?
The "fringe" media has been on this for some time, predicting TEOTWAWKI, etc. Probably why the MSM has been ignoring it mostly. Remember what the MSM did for Y2K.
I think that MSM saved us from Y2K...if they had not made such a big deal about it we would not have had the resources thrown into fixing it
MSM saves lives!
I thought the same thing!
Joey
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Nov. 10, 2011 7:58 a.m. Jay SuperDork
Conquest351 wrote:
Did anyone get to see it?
It was pretty dim even at its closest, you would have needed at least a very good home telescope and exceptionally clear skies. I considered going out with my binoculars on a tripod to give it a shot, but it was overcast here. From what I've read that wouldn't have worked anyway.
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Nov. 10, 2011 8:21 a.m. Dr. Hess SuperDork
Is 4/13/2029 a Friday?
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Dec. 7, 2011 12:40 p.m. Capt Slow Dork
