I recently read an article in the paper saying that Meteorite Aphosis may strike the earth in 2029, ending it. If it doesn't the next possible time is in 2036 with a higher chance of the strike taking place. What is gonna happen to us, and how can we stop it.

The latest I heard the probability of impact was 1 in 43,000 so I'm not too concerned.

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I heard that Aphosis was supposed to hit in 2026, but like RAF, I'm not to worried, there's an extremely low chance.

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First, it's not a "metortie", it's an asteroid. Second, it's 99942 Apophis (was 2004 MN4). Finally, here's the latest information on it.

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Good news, everyone! In case the Earth is threatened by an asteroid (or a big ball of garbage), the proverbially efficient and effective UN will organize a plan of action:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6370817.stm

Oh, and welcome to the board, PulsarX!

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who cares if a meteorite hits us in 2029, since the world is going to end in 2012..

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who cares if a meteorite hits us in 2029, since the world is going to end in 2012..

Well, let's sit under a pyramid, hug our crystals and look at it from a "new age" perspective: If our beautiful Mother Earth is, like, reeely a living, breathing organism, then fer shur it'll be totally reincarnated...

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Actually it ended in May 2003, when Planet X struck the Earth. We're all just figments of Nancy Lieder's imagination (except the dogs).

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Well aside from quick and nifty online researches, I stopped by the local library on the way home...

Asteroid Aphosis (if any of my calculations, if i can call my rudimentary math such, are correct) has about a 0.1% chance of impact. That was using raw numbers. Using the latest and most recent numbers i could dig up online and from some obervational numbers it dropped to a complete miss. Im NOT standing by my math on this one...

But basically from everything i have read or looked up or calculated- it looks like a near miss.

BUT a miss or a hit is not to be ignored either. I am in FULL agreement and support of a program that researches possibilities on how to deflect or prevent impacts. There is no sense, in my mind, in sitting here and watching and waiting for a possible impact without taking steps to do something about it.

Aphosis may act as a "trainer" for Earth that although we may not have an impact- we CAN study how we can prevent one in the future.

ETA: umm where is the conspiracy here? should this thread be moved?

The way I've abused my body with food... I doubt I'll be alive anyway. However, I doubt it'll happen...we have heard many times that the end of the world will happen on x date becuase x is going to strike... then a year or two later they go "oh, our bad... our calculations are wrong, it's going to miss by several times the distance between us and the Sun."

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The impact energy is only 4.0e+02 megatons. Yeah, really suck to be underneath it but I say its hardly world ending. Not even civilisation ending. Except for the civilisation that becomes a big hole in the ground. Quarter klick across means roughly a 2.5 kilometer hole in the ground. We've had worse volcanos.

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ty BigDon- i thought i mentioned that too but scrolling up i see that i didn't. I also noticed it wasnt a world ending impact.

how is this a conspiracy theory?

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I, for one, welcome our earth-destroying asteroid overlords ...

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(Kidding)

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Depends on your particular country. That thing smacking Canada or the US is going to be a bad day, but we've already seen that losing an entire city, and having the bulk of our southern coast turned into a pocket dystopia doesn't exactly bring the place to its knees. Heck, some cities, a few of us might even giggle when the cameras aren't rolling.

Some of the smaller South American countries might be stumbled on the north coast, but they're typically large enough elsewhere that if it misses the capitols, they're gonna recover soon enough.

Asia? Anywhere but the southeast is likely to result in a smack in the middle of nowhere, to something akin to a loss like NO if it finds population. Africa? Pretty good chance of negligible casualties in the north, South Africa might be hurt bad, as its fairly densely populated. The Horn countries are so busy destroying themselves that a hit there will do nothing but accelerate an existing process. The west coast, well, it'll be harsh, but the place is already harsh.

Europe is just hosed. High population densities, integrated infrastructure... A European hit could affect half a dozen countries easily with the fallout from it.

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True, and a much likely water strike would make the Christmas tsunami look like a bathtub spillover.

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Because the the Masons,Templars, the Illuminati and the Skull and Bones all joined forces to redirect towards Earth and destroy everyone except their, they also planted moon hoax disinformation.

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Georgia > San Fran

And here are some 'facts' I made up to support this theory. And remember, I wouldn't make them up, if they weren't true. Your 'facts' may prove otherwise but that just means they are wrong. :P


100% less likely to fall into the ocean.

50% less likely to find a moonbat street protest.

76% more likely to find a hot chick who knows how to line-dance.

15% more likely to have BBQ joints which baste their meat with mops.

90% more likely to find a toll booth operator, fast food worker, person on the street who will make eye contact and say 'Have a nice day.'

60% more likely to find corrupt politicians, but they will at least come to your church social and make you feel good about them being corrupt.

87% less likely to find naked or near-naked street performance artists. Baton Bob is an exception, he wears a tu-tu. Google him if you dare.....

42% more likely to find an older female waitress who will call you 'Sugah' or 'Sweetie' when asking you for your order.

600% more likely to find a DODGEFORDCHEVY 4x4 2500 MONSTER TRUCK with a back window sticker with the number 3 with angel wings, and a small Calvin sticker peeing on the University of Georgia.

200% more likely said monster truck will be driven by a 5'5'' blond soccer mom.

:P

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Dr. Roger Fleming: Ranger Brad, I'm a scientist, I don't believe in anything.

So, run for your life!

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But it is California ending. Watch out, BigDon...

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Come on out and swim with the rednecks, it's a lot nicer out here than on the island.


:P

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Ranger Brad: Oh, say... You don't believe those old legends about the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, do you?

Dr. Roger Fleming: Ranger Brad, I'm a scientist, I don't believe in anything.

*cough*Category 5*cough* Dive in or get washed away. Lose/lose proposition....

Have you ever given a footrub to a woman who's been doing that for five hours?!

Memphis or bust (a gut).

In which language?

I prefer honest thieves.

No thanks, its hard to drive home when my eyes are bleeding.

Somehow, this is not motivational....

I'll take Paranoid Soccer Moms in SUVs for a thousand, Alex...


Who's equator and prime meridian/international dateline has similar measurements...

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Gerrsun, my kid sister is an emergency room tech, (though she goes before the boards in June to become a full fledged RN) and has worked mainly in Atlanta and in San Francisco. Says the main difference between the two locales is in Atlanta you almost never get someone with "foriegn objects" stuck in "unusual places" and in SF you don't get those spectacular encounters with farm equipment. So I'm stuck with the pervs and you're stuck with folks who can't be trusted around moving machinery. Don't know who's worse off. That and she says in Atlanta if you're over 30 and still have all your teeth they know you're from out of town. (Something about not fluoridating the water.)

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hey. .those "folks who can't be trusted around moving machinery" use that machinery to grow and harvest the soybeans to make the tofu that feeds the guys who put the "foreign objects" in those "unusual places"..

it is the circle of life..

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Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. (Glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that)

So yeah, this would seem to be an ideal candidate for a "practice asteroid"

I probably won't be here to see it, (Which really creeps me out. I've been alive my whole life ya know) but since I have pretty daughters I'll probably have grandkids who will see it go by.

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