Metoer strikes wipes out life on earth

[vernon]

Go back and re-read the entire thread. You will see that you've taken my posting far more seriously than I have taken the perceived threat.

 

[Archie_tect]

02, you're just as likely to win the lottery in consecutive weeks... but even that doesn't stop people buying the tickets.

 

[fossyant]

[QUOTE 2316445, member: 9609"]think 've done my neck staring up into the stars with the binos trying to spot the damn thing - and still never saw it[/quote]
It's a rock, not a comet.

 

[fossyant]

Still here.

 

[slowmotion]

Are the doomists donning their Speedos, jumping off MS Climate Change, and heading ( through warming, rising waters) for MS Meteorite Thermageddon?

 

[Archie_tect]

It's a rock, not a comet.

Makes you wonder what it broke off....

 

[Kies]

Kind of puts mankind and our ego's (collectively) in perspective doesn't. That big one will miss us by 17.5km, but if it struck us directly ...... Bye bye this world as we know it!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Took my binos out to have a look. Cloud

 

[Arch]

Took my binos out to have a look. Cloud

Well at least you saw the cloud in detail.

 

[MontyVeda]

Sorry but you've got the thread title wrong, meteors don't strike anything other than the atmosphere. Meteorites are the things that that hit the ground and wipe out life.
[/smartarse]

I got the thread title far wronger than that! WTF's a metoer????

 

[green1]

Kind of puts mankind and our ego's (collectively) in perspective doesn't. That big one will miss us by 27,500km, but if it struck us directly ...... Bye bye this world as we know it!

FTFY

 

[TVC]

Kind of puts mankind and our ego's (collectively) in perspective doesn't. That big one will miss us by 17.5km, but if it struck us directly ...... Bye bye this world as we know it!

It's true, scientists estimate that if an asteroid that size hit Sunderland it could do almost £15 of damage.

 

[Arch]

It's true, scientists estimate that if an asteroid that size hit Sunderland it could do almost £15 of damage.

£15 of improvements, surely?

 

[classic33]

Kind of puts mankind and our ego's (collectively) in perspective doesn't. That big one will miss us by 17.5km, but if it struck us directly ...... Bye bye this world as we know it!

At just short of 11 miles, that would be one very near miss.

 

[Rezillo]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid20130215.html

10,000 tons in size and a 500 kiloton energy release 15 miles up! No wonder the shockwave did so much damage. It's equally arguable, though, that the area got off lightly compared to breakup at a much lower altittude, as happened for the Tunguska event.