Huge Asteroid Impact

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **Gandalf** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:37 pm

JV wrote:
Gandalf wrote:
JV wrote:
Gandalf wrote:At least it'll dry up some of the rain, and just think of the travel costs, you won't have to fly abroad for hot weather.

Very true. Shame we would all be dead.

Awwww you always put such a downer on things, JV!

Sorry Gandy. I'll be more positive.

I can't wait for the warm weather.

More like it! WOO HOO! Surf's definately up with that giant bastard hits!!! :lol:

People should really stop worrying. I mean, Bruce Willis is still alive, right?

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **Shadow** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:49 pm

Imagine the poor guys on the international space station having to look down on that. :lol:

Gandalf wrote:
JV wrote:
Gandalf wrote:
JV wrote:
Gandalf wrote:At least it'll dry up some of the rain, and just think of the travel costs, you won't have to fly abroad for hot weather.

Very true. Shame we would all be dead.

Awwww you always put such a downer on things, JV!

Sorry Gandy. I'll be more positive.

I can't wait for the warm weather.

More like it! WOO HOO! Surf's definately up with that giant ******* hits!!!

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **Gandalf** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:58 pm

Commander Jameson wrote:

Awful, awful scene. It's as bad a Bond kite surfing in Die Another Day! :lol:

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **John Galt** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:39 pm

Alvin Flummux wrote:
Dr. Buckles wrote:So, if this has happed that many times before. Makes you think how advanced we could have been. How far do you think, technology wise and even culturally we could of been before. And then to start all over again.

It almost certainly hasn't happened since around the time of the Great Bombardment, or, you know, before life.

And even if it had been at a time when life existed, most evidence shows that more complex forms of life tend to appear after the current dominant species has been wiped out: mammals for examples only really started to thrive after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **Exxy** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:54 pm

It's like Mass Effect, one civilization is wiped out, another one arrives, becomes advanced, gets wiped out. :shock:

Shadow's post made me chuckle, what a job that would be.

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **Fatal Exception** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:04 pm

You honestly think we couldn't survive that? I recon underground bunkers somewhere could help humanity live for at least a few hundred years. Think of all that geothermal engergy

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **Peter Crisp** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:12 pm

If we had a long enough warning and it really was unstoppable we could build a bunker on the opposite side of the planet to wherever ground zero is going to be. fair enough 99.9% of humanity might die but at least we could save the species.
I'd say we could do this now if we had to.

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **Peter Crisp** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:14 pm

Fatal Exception wrote:You honestly think we couldn't survive that? I recon underground bunkers somewhere could help humanity live for at least a few hundred years. Think of all that geothermal engergy

Exactly, we have enough technologies to keep a group of several thousand people alive and in relative comfort in a bunker for long enough for the surface to once again become habitable. Not that this is a problem anyway as the black holes created by the LHC will kill us all before asteroids can.

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **Lime** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:18 pm

My reclaimed pine dining table is quite sturdy. I would hide under that.

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **Alvin Flummux** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:20 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:
Fatal Exception wrote:You honestly think we couldn't survive that? I recon underground bunkers somewhere could help humanity live for at least a few hundred years. Think of all that geothermal engergy

Exactly, we have enough technologies to keep a group of several thousand people alive and in relative comfort in a bunker for long enough for the surface to once again become habitable. Not that this is a problem anyway as the black holes created by the LHC will kill us all before asteroids can.

An impact that huge would probably render the surface uninhabitable for millions of years. To be honest, we'd be better off fleeing to Mars. Or, better yet, if we caught it early enough we could try to re-direct the oncoming asteroid into Mars, which, hell, might do it some good.

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **Peter Crisp** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:23 pm

Alvin Flummux wrote:An impact that huge would probably render the surface uninhabitable for millions of years. To be honest, we'd be better off fleeing to Mars.

Considering we would have all the money on the planet to build the space ship I feel we should go somewhere less dull than Mars. Maybe some kind of funky massive aircraft carrier (Just in case of Alien attack) swanning around the atmosphere of Jupiter.

Lovely.

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **Alvin Flummux** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:30 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:An impact that huge would probably render the surface uninhabitable for millions of years. To be honest, we'd be better off fleeing to Mars.

Considering we would have all the money on the planet to build the space ship I feel we should go somewhere less dull than Mars. Maybe some kind of funky massive aircraft carrier (Just in case of Alien attack) swanning around the atmosphere of Jupiter.

Lovely.

We'd only end up like Shoemaker-Levy 9.

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **That** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:35 pm

We'll just have to build a planetary defence shell:

*submits plans to NASA*

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **Peter Crisp** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:37 pm

Alvin Flummux wrote:We'd only end up like Shoemaker-Levy 9.

Not if its built from a giant diamond. See, I have this all planned out and all I need to do is find a diamond 50 miles wide.

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **Alvin Flummux** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:38 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:We'd only end up like Shoemaker-Levy 9.

Not if its built from a giant diamond. See, I have this all planned out and all I need to do is find a diamond 50 miles wide.

Didn't we find a massive diamond in another galaxy recently?

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **Peter Crisp** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:41 pm

See so all we need to do now is create some kind of Wormhole so we can go get this diamond and thats it we're all saved. I thought this would be a hard problem to solve but it only took less than 20 minutes.

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **Alvin Flummux** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:50 pm

The advent of nanotechnology should ensure that the earth will be protected from space debris in the future. Should dispatch a load of nanobots and let them construct engines and fuel on one side of it, then activate them and steer it off course.

PostRe: Huge Asteroid Impact by **Skarjo** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:24 pm

Alvin Flummux wrote:
Peter Crisp wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:An impact that huge would probably render the surface uninhabitable for millions of years. To be honest, we'd be better off fleeing to Mars.

Considering we would have all the money on the planet to build the space ship I feel we should go somewhere less dull than Mars. Maybe some kind of funky massive aircraft carrier (Just in case of Alien attack) swanning around the atmosphere of Jupiter.

Lovely.

We'd only end up like Shoemaker-Levy 9.

Holy strawberry float, is that an Escape from Jupiter reference?

Good show, sir!

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