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Astroid on collision course!

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  • #2
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    That is old news. That game hit earth in 1979.



  • #3
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,763 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Call Bruce Willis. Job done.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #4
    Ostrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    Asteroid trajectories are impossible to predict with high accuracy. Paper published on impact probability models using this as case study two years ago.

    Nothing like a definite maybe for the CT crew though.... :)


  • #5
    MiCr0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,265 ✭✭✭MiCr0


    and the word for today is..........
    *could*


  • #6
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    By that stage I'll be living off world anyway.


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  • #7
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    If ifs and buts were candy and nuts.............something something something


  • #8
    smithy1981
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 522 ✭✭✭smithy1981


    That artical says there's a 5500/1 chance that it'll hit. Not spectacular odds. We wont know till 2029 anyway so there's no need to start stockpiling food and water just yet. :)


  • #9
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Call Bruce Willis. Job done.

    He said it's not his turn he did it last time, try Bale he shows promise.


  • #10
    Ostrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    MiCr0 wrote: »
    and the word for today is..........
    *could*

    At least they have a maybe, as opposed to the other 2012 horsesh*t doing the rounds. Still doesn't excuse it :)


  • #11
    DeCoR18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 403 ✭✭DeCoR18


    The chances are 1 in 45000 of it hitting.


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  • #12
    Scrambled egg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭Scrambled egg


    Strangly enough I couldn't give a shit. No offense OP ;)


  • #13
    Conor108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    D-A-V-E wrote: »
    astroid to hit earth i 2030ish

    Its 17:50 now! We've less than 3 hours people!! PANIC!!!!


  • #14
    Jako8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭Jako8


    ScumLord wrote: »
    He said it's not his turn he did it last time, try Bale he shows promise.

    'oh whoop de f**ckin doo asteroid. You're gonna hit the earth.'


  • #15
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    The LHC will destroy the World years before that se we have nothing to worry about


  • #16
    novarock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭novarock


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis - I think we will be ok for now.. But hopefully it gets Elijah wood this time..


  • #17
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Op didnt you say something about aliens, on a thread but never followed up on it.

    are you one of these people who like to see doom and gloom?


  • #18
    osnola ibax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭osnola ibax


    Conor108 wrote: »
    Its 17:50 now! We've less than 3 hours people!! PANIC!!!!

    Tres bien ;)


  • #19
    D-A-V-E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 531 ✭✭✭D-A-V-E


    Snow-Monkey wrote: »
    Op didnt you say something about aliens, on a thread but never followed up on it.

    are you one of these people who like to see doom and gloom?

    yup, good memory! i like to post interesting stuff for people to talk about, this is the video of un unidentified noise.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGeWBiLVn8g&feature=related


  • #20
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    DeCoR18 wrote: »
    The chances are 1 in 45000 of it hitting.

    I'll take those odds. Fiver each way, yeah? Who's in?


  • #21
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    oh relax well just blow it up/send it off course/melt it with lasers/colonize it for minerals/phase it through the earth using the Hyperspace Drive on an Al'kesh.

    We're grand.


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  • #22
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    ''It's all over people, we don't have a prayer..waaaa''


  • #23
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Conor108 wrote: »
    Its 17:50 now! We've less than 3 hours people!! PANIC!!!!

    Phew at least i wont miss Fair City, perfect timing.


  • #24
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    It's ok, the government will send out more iodine tablets! We're good!


  • #25
    bigeasyeah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭bigeasyeah


    ScumLord wrote: »
    He said it's not his turn he did it last time, try Bale he shows promise.

    Just get Eastwood to scowl at it.
    "Feeling lucky,Chunk?"


  • #26
    Pj!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    It will break up in our atmosphere and be no more than the size of a chihuahua's head


  • #27
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    Forky wrote: »
    It will break up in our atmosphere and be no more than the size of a chihuahua's head

    No one got my Simpsons quote, ''for shame''.


  • #28
    bigeasyeah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭bigeasyeah


    ScumLord wrote: »
    He said it's not his turn he did it last time, try Bale he shows promise.

    Just get Eastwood to scowl at it.
    "Feeling lucky,Chunk?"


  • #29
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Captain Chaos wrote: »
    No one got my Simpsons quote, ''for shame''.

    Maybe it's just too obscure a show for anyone to get quotes from.

    Or maybe we did and felt we didn't need to tell you.


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    fire a ball of rubbish the exact same mass and circumference that'l knock it off course.


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  • #31
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    Deleted User wrote: »
    fire a ball of rubbish the exact same mass and circumference that'l knock it off course.

    There we go a bit of Futurama.


  • #32
    Demonique
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,867 ✭✭✭Demonique


    Apophis?

    Where's Jack O'Neill when you need him?


  • #33
    aDeener
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭aDeener


    Turd Ferguson wrote: »
    The LHC will destroy the World years before that se we have nothing to worry about

    should we not be worrying about the LHC then;)


  • #34
    A7X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭A7X


    bigeasyeah wrote: »
    Just get Eastwood to scowl at it.
    "Feeling lucky,Chunk?"

    Saying it twice doesnt make it funny


  • #35
    bigeasyeah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭bigeasyeah


    ScumLord wrote: »
    He said it's not his turn he did it last time, try Bale he shows promise.

    Just get Eastwood to scowl at it.
    'Feeling lucky,chunk?'
    No,you re wrong it gets funnier.


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