is there an asteroid coming?
 

My dad said he was listening to a radio show the other night (not sure what show it was) and there was a guy on there says that he knows for sure that there is an asteroid headed our way that will impact Earth in September of this year. He says that it will kill 80-90% of the population of the world. Apparently this guy thinks that our government knows about this, they just aren't telling anyone.

I'm not saying I believe this is true. I'm just curious if anyone else has heard of this.

Um... that seems questionable to me.... reminds me too much of movies that've come out...

Even if it is true, I'm not worried.

My soul is prepared Dr Jones! Hows yours?

Oh, there's an asteroid coming, eventually. But I doubt that this guy knows much of anything.

We've had three separate meteor/asteroid events in the last 100 years that might have caused terrible devastation in a 10-15 mile region if anybody had lived around there -- the midair explosion of what was probably a dead comet over Siberia in the early 1900s, a rock of apparently several hundred feet in diameter that came down deep in the South American jungle in the '30s, and a pretty-good-size rock that hit Greenland several years ago. In all cases, the strike was so remote that nobody was around at the time or was ever able to get there. The South American strike is only known because a lot of people saw a fireball coming down, but nobody ever saw it strike or found the crater. It was out in the jungle somewhere where nobody lived (nobody who sent out messages, anyway) and probably was overgrown in a few years. Nobody ever got to the site of the Greenland strike, either. An expedition tried, but failed.

But if any of those strikes had been in a major metro area, millions might have been killed. And an ocean strike of a 2-300 foot rock could really sweep clean adjacent coastlines. I've read that a 1000-foot rock coming down in the Pacific would generate tidal waves that would reach 1000-1500 feet at the shoreline....

...and scientists believe that 1 to 3 rocks in the 100-to-1000-foot size range hit earth every century. Just a matter of time.

I'm not worrying. Bruce Willis will blow it up and save us all.

Even if it's true, which...I doubt, then of what possible value would there be in worrying about it?

My thoughts exactly. There was another movie that came out around the same time, wasn't there? I can't remember what it's called, but this one actually landed in the ocean...

Expect a lottery to decide who gets to go to the hollowed out lime caves to wait it out.

Im almost positive your father was listening to Coast to Coast hosted by George Noory. It was Art Bells show (which he takes over on the weekends) sometimes the subject matter is extremely interesting sometimes a little over the top: like an XFiles episode. Depending on the credientials of the guest is what will make it interesting. The guest will always have a link on the site so you can go back and check out past shows www.coasttocoastam.com

I dont know the credentials of this latest guy, but Im interested to check them out.

Speaking of massive objects coming by for a visit; planet X is an interesting read. Reguardless of the debate of its exsistence; something is tugging on neptune.

This kinda tripped me out, because I read the exact same shit in Maxim, which is usually pretty reputable. However, I noticed that it was in their April Fools' Issue, so I dismissed it, but hearing the same story from an entirely different source mindfucked me.

There's probably been a lot of close calls we never hear about. Can you imagine how much panic there would be if everyone thought we were doomed?

That might actually be pretty cool.....

This same shit was in a Maxim magazine earlier this year. It got me thinking. If there were some meteor / asteroid shit heading to earth that would / will kill 80-90% of the population, I'll bet anything that the government is working something up to destroy it before it destroys us. And if it is true and there is nothing that can be done, so be it. If it is fake, then .. yea.

Deep Impact was the movie.

I will see if my dad can better remember what radio show he was listening to and/or who it was. It might have been that Coast to Coast show....I'm not sure.

Well, we're currently in the middle of a 6th mass extinction. All mass extinctions end with some huge cataclysmic event. Eventually that cataclysmic event is going to occur, and it's widely believed it will be a massive asteroid.


(I learned this in my Conservation Biology course.)

Art Bell has some very crazy things on his show, like the famed "Area-51 call in." Part of it can be found in a song (although it's a stretch to call it a song) by Tool, Fiaap de Oiaad.

Here ya' go.....all the scary details,put your head between your legs and...........

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...ay_040503.html

Yo, Damn straight G

Damn, September is going to be a bad month. Another guy says that the big one will hit LA before Sep 5.

Damn, I'll have to get out of this hellhole city earlier than I though!

Thats it! We shall seek shelter in the temple of doom.

Personally, I hope its not true, and i don't really believe it. But, time will tell.

This is on CNN today. The exact same article that tecoyah has posted a link for. It looks like its going to be a near miss. If this really were going to hit I think it would be more well known and there would be a lot more going on about it. Perhaps there is a government cover up, but I think that if this really were actually going to make contact that it would be a much bigger story.

I tend to think of it this way. If there really was an asteroid headed towards earth, I wouldn't be relying on the gov't to tell me about it, rather the backyard astronomers who are constantly scanning the skies as a hobby. They cover more of the sky each night than NASA ever will, so I'm sure we'd hear about it from them.

This article is too big to post....so here is the link.

Pretty much sums up the plans by science, and government to deal with a possible impact, before it actually hits.
http://rn01.rednova.com/news/stories.../story001.html
Looks like they are taking this relatively seriously.

That article looks like they are taking the general asteroid threat seriously, as they should. It is a very real threat. But as for this one coming in September I can only go with the given information. The general consenus seems to be that it will be a near miss. I do agree that there would problably be every space program out there raising alarms if this could be something more.

What's to worry??

10-20% of the population of the world will survive :)

I prefer to look at the 1/2 full glass ;)

More reason to live life to the fullest, huh? ;)

words to live by *nods*

i heard tomorrow at 4:30pm eastern time

Hopefully Ben Affleck will stay behind with him on the surface next time just to absolutely make sure the nuclear device gets detonated.

Amen.

i guess we well find out if it misses or not eh?