03-19-2002, 11:03 PM
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Earth was almost hit by a giant asteroid 4 days ago, and NASA didn't know about it until today!
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/03/19/asteroid.blindside/index.html[/url]
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03-19-2002, 11:47 PM
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| | | Wow! I guess the next catashtrophe(I dunno!) might happen on December 13, 2012. They say a mysterious planet might hit us, Planet X, or an asteroid.
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03-20-2002, 03:53 AM
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| | | This happened not too lopng ago as well. An asteroidcome close to the Eatrhs orbit. I guess it is a hit or miss thing, it said 1 in 10 million, but that says that there is a chance.
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03-20-2002, 10:46 AM
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| | | hahaha our world almost ended!
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03-20-2002, 11:20 AM
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| | | [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by PhantomRevnge67 [/i]
[B]hahaha our world almost ended! [/B][/QUOTE]
That's a funny thing to laugh about. I read your comment and cracked up. That's kinda scary that there's an "astronomical blind spot." Man, that must suck to notice that we could have died [i]after[/i] it whizzes by us! I hope this doesn't happen any time soon. I still haven't ridden Beast at night ;)
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03-20-2002, 01:30 PM
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| | | they are always saying that to scare people, yet they never do anything about it. |
03-20-2002, 01:41 PM
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| | | If this interests you, I'd suggest reading a book called Lucifer's Hammer. I read it around 1980 or so. Much better than the two movies based on asteroids.
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03-20-2002, 01:55 PM
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| | | Preparation H can take care of those aste...oh, never mind.
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03-20-2002, 03:20 PM
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| | | Oh I love how our government agencies are just all screwing up now, FBI, INS, and now NASA
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03-20-2002, 03:42 PM
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| | | I honestly can't see how you can have an "astronomical blindspot." We have everything we need to see th spacearound us. Oh well, chances are it'll never happen again.
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03-20-2002, 03:50 PM
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| | | It probably wasn't as close as they say it is, or it would have caused major chaos. We would have heard about it on the news.
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03-20-2002, 04:01 PM
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| | | they probably knew it wasent ganna hit us
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03-20-2002, 04:09 PM
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| | | [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by BryanWood [/i]
[B]I honestly can't see how you can have an "astronomical blindspot." We have everything we need to see th spacearound us. Oh well, chances are it'll never happen again. [/B][/QUOTE]
They said it was part of the sky that isn't monitored, or it was blinded because of the sun. [i]Something[/i] like that, anyway. Also, I read once that only a small percent (something like 15% of the sky is actually monitored.
[QUOTE]they probably knew it wasent ganna hit us[/QUOTE]
This could be true, because if they had said anything, the media would have blown it out of proportion, and everyone would have freaked out.
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03-20-2002, 04:51 PM
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| | | 2093? Wonder if I'll still be around? (lets see, I'm 16 now, so I'd be 107 then, might be). If I am, I wanna be near it if it hits an ocean to see the world's biggest splash (and then I'd probably die a short time later, but oh well, if not from that then from old age, so might as well see history)
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03-20-2002, 05:11 PM
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| | | [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by PhantomRevnge67 [/i]
[B]hahaha our world almost ended! [/B][/QUOTE]
hahaha why don't you stop spamming every thread you see?
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