Toblerone

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Seen April 18th, 2010
Posted April 18th, 2010
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Wow! Close call for Humankind, eh? Although this is basically like the Hadron Collider nonsense - "Black Hole imminent!" and "The Apocalypse is coming!". So, to be honest, i don't really care, unless something DOES wipe us out, but in that case i'd be dead.

0_o that was really confusing, huh? Was for me :).


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I saw this story. They said there was no chance it would hit because of a huge distance.

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Hmm... I think it's a little odd that nobody calculated the trajectory of the asteroid at least a week before... otherwise, it must have been too small to detect.

Close call, I guess... I think that if we were all going to die anyhow, that it wouldn't even matter. Ha!

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It was only about 30-50 meters. And it was heading for the Pacific.

It would have been the poor Hawaiians that got the extinction. Maybe the Eastern Asians and Australians as well,

Americans would be going: "Huh? Oh, the US Flag lost a star."

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It was only about 30-50 meters. And it was heading for the Pacific.
Wait, what? Do you mean kilometers? If it were only meters, it wouldn't have made a difference - Earth's gravity would have pulled the asteroid into earth.

If it was headed to the Pacific, then it really meant nothing to me, since I live in Bibilin Michigan.

Seriously, guys. Don't get panicky. If an asteroid killed us all, we wouldn't even freakin' know it happened.

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I'm laughing at the entire article, just... because. XD; Pretty cool images of it though. And the comment "better luck next year!" was priceless.

Glad it missed, surprised we didn't hear much about it.
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Wait, what? Do you mean kilometers? If it were only meters, it wouldn't have made a difference - Earth's gravity would have pulled the asteroid into earth.

If it was headed to the Pacific, then it really meant nothing to me, since I live in Bibilin Michigan.

Seriously, guys. Don't get panicky. If an asteroid killed us all, we wouldn't even freakin' know it happened.
It said there, the asteroid was just within that range. It wasn't even close to 1/10 of a Kilometer if you know SI.

And maybe that was all the effect Earth's gravity had. Maybe its path was 10 times farther away than the moon but I'm not sure. The gravity got it 10 times closer than the moon.

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A 30-50m asteroid isn't that large, though it would still cause some major problems if it had crashed.

But we all know it was just Kal-El getting mistaken for again. :D

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Seen January 1st, 2011
Posted January 1st, 2011
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I don't believe on this though. That is so near that it could have been pulled by the gravitational force. This happened in March 3 and there's no news about it at all. If that would even happen then I could see a Jet-looking figure at the sky. Philippines is near in the Pacific.

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That's interesting, I've never heard anything about this before I saw this thread. Oh well.. Day by day, a lot of us have a close brush with death, and we almost always survive with a little help from fortune. We sure do depend on dumb luck a lot. xD;;

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Posted December 1st, 2009
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I don't really see any reason to be worried :P

It was only the size of the Tunguska Rock, even if it did impact, the damage would be very localized, nothing that threatens humanity.

The only real worry is if it were to hit, we'd have another Black Oil infestation D:

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How could you guy's not know about this? Besides, I think that thing is supposed to turn around laterin three decades and hit us anyways....... That is if I don't have my astroids mixed up....
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A 30-50 meter-wide asteroid
Nothing impressive would've happened. It'd take something almost big enough to shatter the Earth to destroy our ever-tenacious race anyway.

I heard a bigger one is coming soon and there going to need no knock it off course
Here's your 'useful application' for nuclear weapons.

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I remember something like this happening when I was a little kid. They mentioned on the evening news that there was a good chance that an asteroid might hit us, and if it did, we'd all die. Then they left us to think about that all night. If I recall correctly, I was hugged to death that night by my mum, but no asteroid.
But yeah, these things always blow over. We have ways of defending ourselves with missiles and the like, I'm sure those brilliant guys and gals over at nasa could figure something out if the worst came to the worst.
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