That's how most middle aged guys in Singapore look by the way.
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That's how most middle aged guys in Singapore look by the way.
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pfft, this video is wrong...
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Fire? Scary! Tornadoes? Scary. The two together? FUCK!
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The_Finn
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isn't the guy who builds the engines blind or something?
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Shit we live next to a bunch of crap. How are we not killed by crap raining down on us again?
[video=youtube;S_d-gs0WoUw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_d-gs0WoUw&feature=player_embedded[/video]
[video=youtube;S_d-gs0WoUw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_d-gs0WoUw&feature=player_embedded[/video]
IceBone
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How can you tell when new telescopes came online? 
Also, we're not killed cause most of those are small enough to burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere. There's a reported 125 strikes per hour.
Also, we're not killed cause most of those are small enough to burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere. There's a reported 125 strikes per hour.
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Luck, pure blind luck. Also the moon sucks up a lot of garbage that come close to us. There are tons of impacts on the surface of the Earth. Apophis is an asteroid that will be really close in 2013, and will be under close scrutiny at that time because it could hit us in the future.
Also in the video you see flashes of "new" asteroids. That is a combination of new telescopes coming on line and (new) astronomers looking in new directions, and the use of computers to analyze images. Also within the last decade or so, with the growth of the internet and higher speeds, the use of small remote telescopes has grown exponentially, so we now have tons af amateur astronomers helping find these NEOs.
And not long ago, we got to see a comet break apart and hit a planet, so this has become a area of some interest in the astronomy community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker-Levy_9
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As well, I still think it is quite a sad thing that noone really cares about defending earth against them. There is no real way to stop an Asteroid in time, it might only work if the big space nations start working together, but as it brings no money noone does it.......and one day we will all look at our brilliant armies and high tech weapons for billions when a piece of rock approaches and think "maybe we spent the money slightly wrong".
As well:
Russia is not amused.
As well:
Russia is not amused.
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IceBone
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What's that map supposed to show?
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The curve of likely places where a certain asteroid would hit the Earth if a collision were in order.
toma_alimosh
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How can you tell when new telescopes came online?
Also, we're not killed cause most of those are small enough to burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere. There's a reported 125 strikes per hour.
That's total meteorites, not asteroids. Asteroids are at least tens of meters across, not the usual rock-the-size-of-a-briefcase you're talking about. Also, the ones in the tens of meters are quite small and they usually get picked up only if they get close to Earth. So most of the ones observed are usually into the hundreds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid#Characteristics
Because of the speed that the "crap" is traveling at. These asteroids have such huge momentum that the Earth's gravity isn't strong enough to even put them in orbit, never mind suck them in. So for an impact to happen it has to be really close, such as close enough to skid through the very high upper atmosphere, thus creating an air-brake effect, or it has to be a direct bulls-eye. In 2027 a huge rock is going to come very close to earth (about the distance to geostationary orbit - TV satellites for those that don't know-, well within the moon's orbit) and it will still miss, just to give you a point of reference.
And since it needs to be a bulls-eye, the probability drops astronomically (pun intended) once you look at the real scale of our solar system (not depicted in the video).
An asteroid 1 km in diameter is large enough to be a global calamity. The one that wiped out the dinosaurs was only 12 km in diameter. We got hit by much bigger before that, which caused even larger extinction events.