The end of life on earth next September. Are you ready?

Bongalongherb

Embrace it and move on as an electrical energy ball of plasma for eternity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVmB3lRjCmc

jimgoose

blinding wrote: »

"THERE IS AN ASTEROID WITH OUR NAME ON IT", SAYS Professor BRIAN COX

Are we far away from having technology that might be able to have a meaningful effect against these asteroids...

Hah! We can put our names on the wretched things, but we can't blow them the fcuk up? Who invents this crap??

Mountainsandh

On the up side my diet is now pointless. :pac:

mrkiscool2

blinding wrote: »

"THERE IS AN ASTEROID WITH OUR NAME ON IT", SAYS Professor BRIAN COX

Are we far away from having technology that might be able to have a meaningful effect against these asteroids.

Maybe there is a reason why I have always had this feeling that I shouldn't be taking this life thing too seriously.

NASA have been working on a laser system to deal with any asteroids that could cause damage to Earth. So far it hasn't been finished/been operational but they don't predict any asteroid to hit us in the next 300 years (that of course could change, one big asteroid hits another and it could send it on a collision course with us). Also, "blind luck" is actually a really strong phrase to use. The universe is so massive that the chance of a large enough asteroid hitting us and wiping us all out is HUGE!

TheLastMohican

I Am The Law wrote: »

Getting your things together? Why?

You know, like finishing all the cans of Murphy's in the shed, a few bottles of Middleton in the attic, sell the Massey ('twill finance a deadly fandango in Rio) and then sell the farm at a knockdown price to fund my end-of-days-parteee in Goa.

stoneill

At least the leaving cert results will be out.

Feisar

Ready? Surely this is like one of those tests that, "you can't study for"?

sbsquarepants

Why the vague timing. Sometime between the 15th and the 23rd was it? Doesn't really sound like something a real spaceoligist would say:D

sbsquarepants

mrkiscool2 wrote: »

NASA have been working on a laser system to deal with any asteroids that could cause damage to Earth. So far it hasn't been finished/been operational but they don't predict any asteroid to hit us in the next 300 years (that of course could change, one big asteroid hits another and it could send it on a collision course with us). Also, "blind luck" is actually a really strong phrase to use. The universe is so massive that the chance of a large enough asteroid hitting us and wiping us all out is HUGE!

Don't mean to be pedantic - but surely the huge size of the universe makes it less likely something will hit us, not more.

Tzardine

Do Tesco sell animal crackers ?

Asmooh

I need to get my spaceship! its buried somewhere in the ocean.. won't say where

TheLastMohican

A valid point brought up at the post-Creamery tinctures this morning by Seaneen 'The Puca' O'Donovan:

Instead of the earth being hit by an asteroid/comet/whatever, it was the other way around and the earth struck one of them - what would the scenario be?
This brought a burst of fierce applause and fresh pints of Murphy's all round.

Tzardine

TheLastMohican wrote: »

A valid point brought up at the post-Creamery tinctures this morning by Seaneen 'The Puca' O'Donovan:

Instead of the earth being hit by an asteroid/comet/whatever, it was the other way around and the earth struck one of them - what would the scenario be?
This brought a burst of fierce applause and fresh pints of Murphy's all round.

Which would you prefer. You hitting a wall at 100mph or a wall hitting you at 100mph.

JCX BXC

World ending? Could this by any chance translate into cheaper flight fares after September?

FishOnABike

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Misleading title is misleading.

Next September implies September 2016. September 2015 is this September.

I thought we had 12 months more than we really do,:eek::eek::pac:

Careful now or we'll be restarting the whole 'this weekend, next weekend' / 'this bus, next bus' debate.

Niemoj

The Westboro Baptist hate group very politely informed people about this on Twitter.

I'm petrified so I am....

....Fúckin' petrified.

bradlente

That Brian Cox story sounds similar to a discussion he had with Joe Rogan,except the part about an asteroid in September.I think the one he said could possibly hit was sometime in the next decade or the one after.

Captain Chaos

There is nothing currently tracked that has a chance of hitting us for the next 100+ years or more, well a big one that will cause significant damage anyway, small ones hit us every day. We will have a close approach in April 2029 and the same one again in 2036.

It's the ones we can't see or don't know about that we should be worried. The one that exploded over Russia a few years ago we could not see coming as it came from the direction of the sun. The only way we could have seen that was if we had scopes at points L4 and 5 in our orbit.

TheLastMohican

Possibly jumped the gun somewhat. Phew! This is a more relaxing read: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33209548

Samaris

I think we're missing a real opportunity here by not spreading the word.

Come August, we can launch a rocket carrying the Chosen Ones to bear the last words of humanity out amongst the stars. I reckon..ooh, the Westboro Baptist Church, the leaders of Scientology and Jenny McCarthy. We can then await the comet, knowing that the best and brightest of us have left the dying planet forever.

It's a hard sacrifice, but it's for the betterment of mankind.

TheLastMohican

Samaris wrote: »

I think we're missing a real opportunity here by not spreading the word.

Come August, we can launch a rocket carrying the Chosen Ones to bear the last words of humanity out amongst the stars. I reckon..ooh, the Westboro Baptist Church, the leaders of Scientology and Jenny McCarthy. We can then await the comet, knowing that the best and brightest of us have left the dying planet forever.

It's a hard sacrifice, but it's for the betterment of mankind.

Can we also include Eamon Dunphy, Pippa Middleton, Twink and Brendan O Carroll?

JCX BXC

Also if Brian Cowen manages to it, it wouldn't be the end of the world...