View Full Version : "Chunk of rock" to hit earth's atmosphere tonight!
Betty
10-06-2008, 06:54 PM
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/home/30528359.html
Discovered just yesterday and confirmed by many, this 10' wide chunk of rock is expected to hit the earth's atmosphere tonight over Northern Sudan.
The energy released should be approximately equal to one kiloton of conventional explosives. Fortunately, no damage is expected, since the blast will take place in the upper atmosphere. Some fragments may fall to the ground, but the area is sparsely inhabited and they're unlikely to hit anyone.
The sight and sound, however, should be amazing — especially since the sky will still be dark when this meteor hits. The fireball may be visible over much of northern Africa, the Middle East, and possibly even southern Europe.
I haven't decided if I should :eek: or :cool: .
lashbear
10-06-2008, 07:41 PM
I wanna see !!
Isaac
10-06-2008, 07:45 PM
I haven't decided if I should :eek: or :cool: .
compromise:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/zapppop/ooh.jpg
alphabassettgrrl
10-06-2008, 07:54 PM
I definitely :cool: I kind of want to see it.
Ghoulish Delight
10-06-2008, 08:37 PM
The answer is unequivocally :cool: With perhaps a :iSm: and :birdy:
bewitched
10-06-2008, 08:48 PM
[Mr.Bill] Oh, noooooooo! :eek: [/Mr.Bill]
innerSpaceman
10-06-2008, 09:09 PM
omg, is there enough time to get on a plane, that's how much i wanna see it. :D :iSm:
How come we never get any of the cool asteroids??!? :(
Kevy Baby
10-06-2008, 09:17 PM
How come we never get any of the cool asteroids??!? :(Well, there was this one (http://www.meteorcrater.com/index.php), although it was a few years ago...
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Science/Images/Content/meteor-crater-meteor-crater-sw.jpg
lashbear
10-06-2008, 09:23 PM
Goodness, Kevy.. That's a big one. :eek:
Kevy Baby
10-06-2008, 09:36 PM
Goodness, Kevy.. That's a big one. :eek:I hear that so often...
JWBear
10-06-2008, 09:46 PM
It was supposed to have hit 2 hours ago. Nobody has video on the web yet. I wanna see the boom!
RStar
10-06-2008, 11:16 PM
"Asteroid destroys Sudan, film at eleven!"
Perhaps there is no video because those filming did not survive......
:eek:
Oh, look at the pretty fireworks!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/zapppop/ooh.jpg Ooooh!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/zapppop/ooh.jpg Ahhhhh!
Betty
10-07-2008, 06:29 AM
I couldn't find any video on youtube - but I did find news reports that it was a spectacular show! psh. What a tease.
blueerica
10-07-2008, 09:02 AM
compromise:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/zapppop/ooh.jpg
I love this smilie!
Kevy's picture is a fraud! That's no meteor crater. You can still see where the fuse burned its way to the bomb.
Capt Jack
10-07-2008, 10:12 AM
I actually kind of impressed that in all that vast expanse, they spotted what was about the size of a VW headed our way.....although admittedly, pretty much in the very last (cosmic) second. just as well I guess. if it was going to cause any sort of problems here on earth, there wasn't jack squat anyone could have done about it anyway.
Moonliner
10-07-2008, 10:13 AM
Kevy's picture is a fraud! That's no meteor crater. You can still see where the fuse burned its way to the bomb.
Check the soil. If there is a cellulose residue on everything then it's a dead give away a missile was used.
That's true. And I hear that there were, mysteriously enough, no Jews in Arizona that day. I think we all know what that must mean!
JWBear
10-07-2008, 12:43 PM
And no film or pictures of the meteor hitting the Arizona have ever come up. Obviously, there never was a meteor!
Yes, I think we've proven it was a neocon plot.
JWBear
10-07-2008, 12:50 PM
What isn't?
This (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GRid=268&PIgrid=268&PIcrid=85370&PIpi=1132212&)?
Kevy Baby
10-07-2008, 02:12 PM
This (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GRid=268&PIgrid=268&PIcrid=85370&PIpi=1132212&)?Okay: I'm clueless. What is this a reference to/significance of this?
That's a picture of a plot. Based on the contents of the plot, I am pretty sure it is not a neocon plot.
Cadaverous Pallor
10-07-2008, 03:15 PM
I may not be laughing out loud, but I'm smiling and shaking my head. VAM
Kevy Baby
10-07-2008, 04:03 PM
That's a picture of a plot. Based on the contents of the plot, I am pretty sure it is not a neocon plot.Ah... I get it.
I think
Do you know who Eugene V. Debs was?
But I'll admit it was a stretch of lateral thinking that I figured would only amuse myself.
Kevy Baby
10-07-2008, 07:16 PM
Do you know who Eugene V. Debs was?I didn't, but I do now (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs).
It is starting to make sense, but I think it lost some of its charm in the roundabout translation (my fault; not yours).
Ghoulish Delight
10-07-2008, 09:41 PM
You're probably overthinking it, it's a very literal joke. Plot as in cemetery plot + political antithesis to neo conservatives = something that is clearly not a neocon plot.
Cadaverous Pallor
10-08-2008, 08:02 AM
I'm bummed. Apparently the event really was in the middle of nowhere (http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/home/30528359.html) and no one saw it.
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