Simulation of an astroid hitting Earth

[TheBandit]

Best background song they could chosen, it fits perfectly. Gave me a weird feeling watching it though.

http://www.proinvestortrader.com/?p=3261

[NJ Torque]

wow.. kinda scary, huh?

[BarneyMobile]

That was a really really really big astroid! Nothing like what we've seen in the movies.

[DevilDougWS6]

500km across. that sucks balls. id rather not be around to see that. and very realistic looking video.

[V]

i think its fake














lol

[SupermanX24]

That's ****ing nuts! Coulda chosen a smaller asteroid.

[NJ Torque]

That's ****ing nuts! Coulda chosen a smaller asteroid.

*huge asterriod coming towards earth*

you see patrick saying "nah, that ones too big... please send a smaller one"

[SupermanX24]

blow me...

[sweetbmxrider]

so that kinda sucks and stuff

what was the mass and impact speed? details!

[ZeroCool8891]

EHH, it will most likyl happen but not for another few hundred years from what ive heared over the years. but we shall see what happens.

cool video tho. lol

[ar0ck]

I'm just curious how long it would take for death to come to NJ if it hit in the Pacific....

I think I'd honestly like to know how much time I have left from discovery to the initial impact.

[Tsar]

Sweet, new background for my phone! :mrgreen:

[madness410]

its ok, if something like this was supposed to happen, al gore would save us..

http://www.morethings.com/fan/south_park/photo_gallery/al-gore-superhero.jpg

EXELSIOR!!

[transmaro93]

hahah.... only prob i have with that vid was that it didnt show the astroid enter the atmosphere it just showed it hit the earth.... i would think the atmosphere would do somthing do it before it hit earth... not to say i wont kill us... but hey the worlds sopposed to end in 2012 anyway... screw it lets have fun now...

[//<86TA>\\]

hahah.... only prob i have with that vid was that it didnt show the astroid enter the atmosphere it just showed it hit the earth.... i would think the atmosphere would do somthing do it before it hit earth... not to say i wont kill us... but hey the worlds sopposed to end in 2012 anyway... screw it lets have fun now...


I dont think the atmosphere would do much of anything to something that big, probably similar to dropping a bowling ball on a bubble.

[Tru2Chevy]

I'm just curious how long it would take for death to come to NJ if it hit in the Pacific....

I think I'd honestly like to know how much time I have left from discovery to the initial impact.

In the video it said that the Earth would be completely enveloped in the firestorm, and would be uninhabitable within one day, so I would imagine that if it touched down in the middle of the Pacific we would have somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 hours to live....

- Justin

[BonzoHansen]

Where is Bruce Willis when we need him????

[LTb1ow]

Bust out the marshmellows! Mmmmm

[87GTA]

Where is Bruce Willis when we need him????

he is at his dad's house in the next town over form me!...LOL

[GP99GT]

awesome song, one of my favorites

[SupermanX24]

black hawk down theme woulda been better imo

[BonzoHansen]

In the video it said that the Earth would be completely enveloped in the firestorm, and would be uninhabitable within one day, so I would imagine that if it touched down in the middle of the Pacific we would have somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 hours to live....

- Justin

Would they tell us it's coming? Imagine the panic for the weeks prior to impact.


I kept waiting to be rick rolled mid video....

[SupermanX24]

btw I call ******** on how it's happened 6 times. Not an asteroid that big. It would knock the earth out of its orbit.

[TheBandit]

btw I call ******** on how it's happened 6 times. Not an asteroid that big. It would knock the earth out of its orbit.

It most likely happened 6 times if they have the evidence. Why couldn't it?

[SupermanX24]

I don't doubt the earth has been "killed" 6 times by asteroids, but certainly not by something that size or similar. And what's the evidence?

[NJ Torque]

no more reptar?

[7pointoh]

http://janus.astro.umd.edu/astro/impact/

I know there's a better simulator out there but this one has marvin the martian

[TheBandit]

Lol of course one that size never hit. The biggest one was what 10km? Evidence.. Dinosaurs are gone aren't they?

[Knipps]

Lol of course one that size never hit. The biggest one was what 10km? Evidence.. Dinosaurs are gone aren't they?

That's like saying the Dodo bird (which is extinct, but only in the last 400 yrs) suffered the same fate.

[SupermanX24]

Lol of course one that size never hit. The biggest one was what 10km? Evidence.. Dinosaurs are gone aren't they?

well in the video it said that's happened 6 times already (their simulation) which is what I was arguing. Something of that size in the video would knock the earth out of orbit and/or shatter the planet.

[TheBandit]

6 times an astroid has hit the earth.. but none were that big.. what was the biggest recorded astroid to hit earth? 10km? Not 500km or however big that was.

[SupermanX24]

we've established that already, sam...lol

[sweetbmxrider]

well in the video it said that's happened 6 times already (their simulation) which is what I was arguing. Something of that size in the video would knock the earth out of orbit and/or shatter the planet.

:lol: or do exactly what the simulation showed. come on now!

there are more factors that a 500km asteroid or whatever.

who is to say earth isn't in a different orbit?

what does the ocean floor look like?

remember pangea? might have missed land or more land was shaped over the impact crater. also, as a few mentioned, never did they say this big of an asteroid.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Pangaea_continents.png/250px-Pangaea_continents.png

http://www.southafrica.info/about/geography/vredefort-080605.htm

At 2-billion years old, Vredefort is far older than the Chixculub structure in Mexico which, with an age of 65-million years, is the site of the impact that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

don't know the accuracy of it but there ya go Knipps

[SupermanX24]

my point is a 500km asteroid would shatter the earth and wouldn't leave a crater like the simulation.

[sweetbmxrider]

my point is a 500km asteroid would shatter the earth and wouldn't leave a crater like the simulation.

:rofl: i'm sorry but i am going to need to see qualifications for this statement. i don't think the earth is made out of glass so we should be ok....

[SupermanX24]

seriously, it's like two rocks colliding into each other. They're gonna "explode," or as I said, shatter, into a million peices. But then again, you need to factor in the angle they hit. The way the video has it depicted is it's pretty much a head on collission.

[sweetbmxrider]

there are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many more factors though!!!!

[TheBandit]

Lol i didn't know what the hell i was reading Pat.. but bmxrider is right.. theres more factors that into it beside the fact that one big hard round thing collided with another big hard round thing

[SupermanX24]

i didn't say he was wrong either. Just the video seems to be a misconception. They're saying its a 500km rock, where nothing ever that big ever hit earth except in the earliest of stages in formation. Anyway, the biggest thing we have to concern ourselves with even coming close to getting hit by is Apotheosis. 415 meters in diameter.

[Tsar]

seriously, it's like two rocks colliding into each other. They're gonna "explode," or as I said, shatter, into a million peices. But then again, you need to factor in the angle they hit. The way the video has it depicted is it's pretty much a head on collission.

Not that any of us are qualified to answer but what makes you think that a 500km asteroid would shatter our planet? Our planet is about 13000km in diameter, or 26 times bigger than the said asteroid. While 99% of life on Earth would surely be wiped out I highly doubt our planet would shatter in a million pieces.

[NJSPEEDER]

I actually watched a Discovery special on this recently.

The Earth has been hit several times by "mega asteroids" before. They can apparently tell by the kind of rock found in different areas as well as the shape that it is sitting. They actually showed how they proved that the Gulf of Mexico is the largest impact crater on the planet.

That video showed the firestorm part a bit different though. According to the show I saw there would be a massive burn off in the last thousands of miles before and once the meteor entered the Earth's atmosphere. The pieces that fly off as a result would incinerate in the atmosphere and basically act like a series of nuclear explosions big enough to level even the biggest sprawling cities on the planet.