How big is said asteroid?

 

We have 24 years to prepare for this.. I'm not an apocalypse preacher but the odds of 1 in 250,000 are quite good considering it could kill millions. At some point earth will get hit by an asteroid, so I dont see why governments wouldnt start collaborating on a system to protect the earth.. Except greed.

 

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Originally Posted by s-x We have 24 years to prepare for this.. I'm not an apocalypse preacher but the odds of 1 in 250,000 are quite good considering it could kill millions. At some point earth will get hit by an asteroid, so I dont see why governments wouldnt start collaborating on a system to protect the earth.. Except greed.

If it hits.... it would be billions....

Reason why? Government really do have more pressing matters to fix in the next 10-20 years first...

 

*Phew* Good thing the world will end in 2012 so we won't have to deal with this.

 

There have been numerous documentary specials on similar things and how the people of Earth would deal with it. The simplest sounds like just smashing something into it so that its trajectory is nudged just enough to miss us.

Speaking of Stargate...I make this plea to people: Please start watching Stargate Universe! It is a great show, but because SyFy is ******ed, they put it on Mondays during regular broadcast station shows so the ratings are down, causing them to think they have to cancel the show. Watch it so ratings pick up and SyFy changes its mind and renews the show! SAVE STARGATE UNIVERSE!!!

 

lets nuke it!

 

...It is a sad day when ancient egyptian mythology being the inspiration for a name is mistaken for a tv show...

 

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Originally Posted by E-Peen How big is said asteroid?

250 meters wide

 

Has been known for years.

 

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Originally Posted by kyle-reece ...It is a sad day when ancient egyptian mythology being the inspiration for a name is mistaken for a tv show...

It's a sad day when people don't read the article. If you had, you'd see that the asteroid was indeed named for the Stargate character.

Also...
SAVE STARGATE UNIVERSE!

 

Nice I have a friend that used to go (online) by Apophis....now its Boozehound....lol

 

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Originally Posted by stargate125645;12350974
There have been numerous documentary specials on similar things and how the people of Earth would deal with it. The simplest sounds like just smashing something into it so that its trajectory is nudged just enough to miss us.

Speaking of Stargate...I make this plea to people: Please start watching Stargate Universe! It is a great show, but because SyFy is ******ed, they put it on Mondays during regular broadcast station shows so the ratings are down, causing them to think they have to cancel the show. Watch it so ratings pick up and SyFy changes its mind and renews the show! SAVE STARGATE UNIVERSE!!!

Don't mean to go offtopic but...
Universe is dead man. It is unlikely that Universe will get even a movie/miniseries nor a 3rd season.
And..Universe wasn't a stargate show...I wasted my time after that. The show was more flawed than they promised.

 

the world ends in 2012 anyway
judgement day is already upon us

 

From wiki:

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NASA initially estimated the energy that Apophis would have released if it struck Earth as the equivalent of 1480 megatons of TNT. A later, more refined NASA estimate was 880 megatons, then revised to 510 megatons.[3] The impacts which created the Barringer Crater or the Tunguska event are estimated to be in the 3â€"10 megaton range[19] The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was the equivalent of roughly 200 megatons. In comparison, the Chicxulub impact, believed by many to be a significant factor in the extinction of the dinosaurs, has been estimated to have released about as much energy as 100,000,000 megatons.

Let's get ready for a party. Imagine if that thing hits the ocean...holy tsunami batman!

 

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Originally Posted by k4m1k4z3 250 meters wide

Seriously? That's tiny. We could stop that in 2036. I mean all you have to do to knock it off course is nudge it a bit.

 

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Originally Posted by 5entinel Don't mean to go offtopic but... Universe is dead man. It is unlikely that Universe will get even a movie/miniseries nor a 3rd season. And..Universe wasn't a stargate show...I wasted my time after that. The show was more flawed than they promised.

The show was never flawed... it simply wasn't the exact same thing, and that's what they said would happen. After the characters were developed in the first half of the first season (something that took several seasons for the other shows because of the style of story telling), things became remarkably similar to the franchise as you knew it. You gave up too soon; don't be a fare weather fan!

 

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Originally Posted by Kirmie Seriously? That's tiny. We could stop that in 2036. I mean all you have to do to knock it off course is nudge it a bit.

Yep. Land a probe on it, do a slow, calculated thruster burn to nudge the orbit just enough and no issue. It is only 750ft wide so the crater would be about double the size of the one in Arizona, so about 3-400 miles out would be affected, unless it hit the water, then that would be a bigger issue to deal with.

 

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Originally Posted by k4m1k4z3 250 meters wide

Ah, about as big as bobby kotick Ego, not bad, but I'm sure if something like this is going to happen, we could dig into a cave, have loads of food and water, and give out passes to people, but really the rich people will pay to get into the cave however when the doors are closing some bunch poorer people will stop the cave from closing and they have to find some sort of way of closing it risking their lives! WOW this is an amazing film idea!

I think I will call it 2036!

 

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Originally Posted by Squirrel From wiki: Let's get ready for a party. Imagine if that thing hits the ocean...holy tsunami batman!

Meh, I live in Colorado. Not only will I have mountains, I'll also have beach front property. Yeah! Check this guy out in 25 years.

 

Hopefully by 2036 I've lost my virginity.

All kidding aside, 250 meters wide. I'm bad with math, how big is that?

 

You have no idea how long I have waited to use this image:

 

I for one welcome the confrontation.

 

When it comes... I'll party like it's 2012.

 

You guys are ******ed.. 2012 is a sham, never gonna happen. Whatever happened to the "end of the world" predictions we had years ago after generation and generation? ADMIT IT it's not gonna be over. We'll still be here. As for the asteroid i'm glad its in 2036 cuz i'll be ughhh 47 yrs old but.. i honestly think by that time we will have better technology even weapons to stop asteroids from hurling into earth via space.

2012.. well.. i still think we'll get a wake up visitor call from Aliens greeting us how to use better technology like repeating history what they did years ago, i have theories.

 

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Originally Posted by 78@pwnt4lif3 2012.. well.. i still think we'll get a wake up visitor call from Aliens greeting us how to use better technology like repeating history what they did years ago, i have theories.

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Originally Posted by 78@pwnt4lif3 You guys are ******ed..

I think I hear a pot calling a kettle.