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Something massive just hit Jupiter

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  • #2
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    DjembaDjemba wrote: »
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/19299984@N08/7976507568/

    the explosion was the size of earth, so if it had hit here, it would have destroyed the planet... comparison

    http://i.imgur.com/oUHBr.jpg
    That was last night. It was probably a comet.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056751689


  • #3
    Ristiano Conaldo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭Ristiano Conaldo


    Sorry about that, I was just changing my boxers.


  • #4
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Wow.
    Its interesting to think that an object of roughly the same size of Earth hit Jupiter.

    Makes this planet feel quite small dont it?


  • #5
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Ristiano Conaldo wrote: »
    Sorry about that, I was just changing my boxers.


    My load hit Pluto.

    Thats why its not a planet anymore


  • #6
    Aka Ishur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Aka Ishur


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Wow.
    Its interesting to think that an object of roughly the same size of Earth hit Jupiter.

    Makes this planet feel quite small dont it?

    He said it caused an explosion the size of the earth....very different thing altogether...a tennis ball of c4 doesnt cause a tennis ball sized explosion......


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  • #7
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Aka Ishur wrote: »
    He said it caused an explosion the size of the earth....very different thing altogether...a tennis ball of c4 doesnt cause a tennis ball sized explosion......


    Oh I see. Misread it.

    But still. We be small :P


  • #8
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Aka Ishur wrote: »

    He said it caused an explosion the size of the earth....very different thing altogether...a tennis ball of c4 doesnt cause a tennis ball sized explosion......

    No but it would a wild racket.


  • #9
    Sir Pompous Righteousness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 437 ✭✭Sir Pompous Righteousness


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    That was last night. It was probably a comet.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056751689

    If it was a comet/asteroid, astronomical agencies would have publicized it before it struck, remember Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, but they didn't this time, it seems.


  • #10
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Sir Pompous Righteousness wrote: »
    If it was a comet/asteroid, astronomical agencies would have publicized it before it struck, remember Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, but they didn't this time, it seems.
    Possibly. I'm no scientitian.


  • #11
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    imagine it hit us. who would the americans blame?


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  • #12
    humbert
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    Sir Pompous Righteousness wrote: »
    If it was a comet/asteroid, astronomical agencies would have publicized it before it struck, remember Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, but they didn't this time, it seems.

    So what does that leave? God or aliens?


  • #13
    Tinie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,402 ✭✭✭Tinie


    feckin female drivers.


  • #14
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    imagine it hit us. who would the americans blame?


    Iran.

    They've killed Bin Laden (allegedly) and Saddams WMD's havent quite surfaced yet. Who's left?


  • #15
    Sir Pompous Righteousness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 437 ✭✭Sir Pompous Righteousness


    Apparently Uranus is going to be struck by a massive asteroid tonight.


  • #16
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    I always get worked up, excited and in independence day mode when I read or see something like this but I'm always let down :(


  • #17
    Rigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    wowwa weewa


  • #18
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Sir Pompous Righteousness wrote: »
    Apparently Uranus is going to be struck by a massive asteroid tonight.

    Massive haemorrhoid


  • #19
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Rigol wrote: »
    wowwa weewa


    Hmmmmm quite


  • #20
    Sir Pompous Righteousness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 437 ✭✭Sir Pompous Righteousness


    humbert wrote: »
    So what does that leave? God or aliens?

    Jesus of course, it's a sign of the second coming, 2012 and all that jazz.


  • #21
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Sir Pompous Righteousness wrote: »
    Apparently Uranus is going to be struck by a massive asteroid tonight.
    Okay, who had post #15?


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  • #22
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    I might be drunk but you know, I've always thought, the way our galaxy is set up, it's almost perfect for Earth. Major asteroids got swept away or hit the bigger worlds. We have the moon like some massive shield. Maybe that's just how it all panned out by pure chance, I don't know.


  • #23
    Colmustard
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    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Wow.
    Its interesting to think that an object of roughly the same size of Earth hit Jupiter.


    It wasn't the same size of Earth, the energy release or plume of the explosion was.

    Jupiter just doing its job as the solar systems sentinel sucking up space objects with its massive gravity and stopping some of them coming our way.

    Thank you Jupiter.


  • #24
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Colmustard wrote: »
    It wasn't the same size of Earth, the energy release or plume of the explosion was.

    Jupiter just doing its job as the solar systems sentinel sucking up space objects with its massive gravity and stopping some of them coming our way.

    Thank you Jupiter.



    or
    Aka Ishur wrote: »
    He said it caused an explosion the size of the earth....very different thing altogether...a tennis ball of c4 doesnt cause a tennis ball sized explosion......



    Man, you get alot of people willing to correct you, over others, in after hours :pac:


  • #25
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Wow.
    Its interesting to think that an object of roughly the same size of Earth hit Jupiter.

    Makes this planet feel quite small dont it?
    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    or





    Man, you get alot of people willing to correct you, over others, in after hours :pac:

    Like your wrong correction.:confused:


  • #26
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,784 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Man, you get alot of people willing to correct you, over others, in after hours :pac:[/QUOTE]


    http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.ie/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html


  • #27
    Duiske
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    Sir Pompous Righteousness wrote: »
    If it was a comet/asteroid, astronomical agencies would have publicized it before it struck, remember Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, but they didn't this time, it seems.

    They just didn't see it. Anyway, Jupiter regularly gets hit like it did last night. Its gravity pulls in debris that strays from the asteroid belt which is relatively close to Jupiter. Its scary the amount of crap flying around out there unseen. This asteroid, 2012 QC8, was not spotted until 20th July last. Its a 1.2km diameter rock that will pass within 23 lunar distances of earth. If it had been heading straight for Earth it could have potentially killed hundreds of thousands. Even Bruce Willis would not have had time to save us. :D
    There are 1,000's of these out there, and some are not noticed until days or even hours before they whizz past. There's almost certainly at least one out there with our name on it. Its only a matter of time.


  • #28
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    Isn't comets that are the worry, comets come from deep space, so if it happens, it will be, what that, oh sh1t, that is if you bother worry the chances are still minuscule that a big one will hit.

    We have more immediate concerns that would be worse then most impacts this world has seen in 500 million years. A runaway greenhouse extinction event as what happened at the end of the triassic epoch is the worse thing to happen to life on earth and some say we are at the beginning of that.

    So in a way we had an impact, but the effects are in slow motion and at this stage probably irreversible, but who knows for certain.


  • #29
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,954 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Colmustard wrote: »
    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Wow.
    Its interesting to think that an object of roughly the same size of Earth hit Jupiter.


    It wasn't the same size of Earth, the energy release or plume of the explosion was.

    Jupiter just doing its job as the solar systems sentinel sucking up space objects with its massive gravity and stopping some of them coming our way.

    Thank you Jupiter.


    Why, you're very welcome!

    Yes, I regularly get the odd knock from an asteroid or comet but that's been happening to me since I was forned out of swirling solar nebula 4.6 billion years ago.

    My giant, gaseous globe can take a lot!


  • #30
    TeddyTedson
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    I was most likely Aliens who have been monitoring us sending some sort of missiles to destroy us that went off course. The end is nigh. All though, can you blame them. Monitoring us would be like a never ending series of Big Brother. Fooking hell.


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  • #31
    Reamer Fanny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭Reamer Fanny


    Chuck Norris farted


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