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almostaskier
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http://www.playfuls.com/news_004779_Global_Solutions_Sought_for_Dangerous_Incoming_Asteroids.html

This feels eerily paranoid...

75% of the country is ocean... an asteroid, even IF it managed to get through the atmosphere with enough mass to do any sort of harm, which would imply a perfect trajectory, has more chance of hitting somewhere with no one than with anyone...

Also, people are thinking tractor beams... Come on now...
Feb 18 2007 3:11PM
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almostaskier
Posts: 13809 - Karma: 93
country? i mean world...
Feb 18 2007 3:11PM
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JockinJLoads
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there was a thread on this like maybe a month ago....they dont think it will hit
Feb 18 2007 3:12PM
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InfernoHits
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yea but an asteroid that is big hitting the ocean will still have destructive effects. Tsunami's and earthquakes etc.
Feb 18 2007 3:13PM
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hobbes
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Who the hell cares. If it is gonna hit us, let it hit us. Live in the moment. The time is NOW!
Feb 18 2007 7:10PM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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dude watch armagedon you will understand more thoroughly the magnitude of the situation, plus you get to see bruce willis kick ass.
Feb 18 2007 7:20PM
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Aenigma
Posts: 11256 - Karma: 424
And watch "The Day After Tomorrow" if you want to learn all about global warming.
Feb 18 2007 7:31PM
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nitsua
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that doesnt sound to great
Feb 18 2007 7:36PM
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Dustin.
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word, i skiied waist deep pow yesterday and had sex this morning after church. i am just good to go
Feb 18 2007 7:41PM
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Crock360
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Bring it on, i can't fuckin wait!
Feb 18 2007 7:51PM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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wow dude, your really cool.
Feb 18 2007 7:58PM
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FUUUCK
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1 in 45,000 isnt worth our time
Feb 18 2007 8:17PM
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skifree919
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personally, i think he's living a pretty sweet life right now and has good reason to brag. I wish i skied powder and had sex on sunday :-(
Feb 18 2007 8:29PM
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RudyGarmisch
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I'd take either.
Feb 18 2007 8:37PM
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mothaeast
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Hah word

Theres not a very good chance of it hitting us, and if it did, what would happen, I mean the dinosaurs died when a meteor hit, but were way smarter than them. worst case we have nuclear winter, and whos complaining then?
Feb 18 2007 8:53PM
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Galli
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i think i read it was about 1 in 50,000.....so i wouldnt worry to much... haha but than i also heard 7 years years after it is going to come back again and only be 1 and 16,000 either way thats really terrible odds
Feb 18 2007 8:56PM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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uhhh all the people who starve to death.....



and yeah i guess the kid had a good day....sorry i was hatin.
Feb 18 2007 8:56PM
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skifree919
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Eh who cares, if human life ceases to exist, like really, whats the big deal? I mean yea we would all be dead (even though it won't happen), but time would still go on. The universe wouldn't end. Oooh philosophical arguments
Feb 18 2007 9:12PM
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guerillafreeride4099
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werd we are just a mess anyway

i love life but the world would benifit with out us
Feb 18 2007 9:18PM
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fillup
Posts: 4904 - Karma: 568
Apophis has a one in 45 000 chance of striking Earth on April 13, 2036.

ya i bet we are all going to die
Feb 18 2007 9:20PM
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KRASHED
Posts: 7803 - Karma: 466
society is so paranoid these days, with the great information age comes the great paranoia age.
Feb 18 2007 9:45PM
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KRASHED
Posts: 7803 - Karma: 466
we probably have a better chance at winning the lottery than having that astroid hit us smack on
Feb 18 2007 9:52PM
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Liam.
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some of us wont even be alive then (knock on wood) so why not just live life. its good though that people are looking out for shit like this. i dont think it will hitt. but if u think about it. didnt the dinosaurs die from a asteroid. that means that if a big as rock hit us we would probebly be fucked
Feb 18 2007 10:03PM
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ninjea
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well, see you guys later, i'm gonna go build an underground bunker im my backyard. i think i should be done by 2035, just in time to fill it up with food for the next ten years.
Feb 18 2007 10:13PM
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sowstochd
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There is a 1/45,000 chance of an asteroid hitting earth in 2036...whats this mean? 2035's best pickup line
Feb 18 2007 11:10PM
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