Sunday, April 13, 2036

[Mr. Antonov]

Mark your calendar for Sunday, April 13, 2036. That's when a 1,000-foot-wide asteroid named Apophis could hit the Earth with enough force to obliterate a small state.

The odds of a collision are 1-in-6,250. But while that's a long shot at the racetrack, the stakes are too high for astronomers to ignore.

For now, Apophis represents the most imminent threat from the worst type of natural disaster known, one reason NASA is spending millions to detect the threat from this and other asteroids.

A direct hit on an urban area could unleash more destruction than Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Asian tsunami and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake combined. The blast would equal 880 million tons of TNT or 65,000 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

[gijoe0720]

Hell yes we are all goin to die!!!!!!!

[JDMBeau]

w00t cant wait

[quickdodge®]

Good thing I just got my light saber from Game SPot. Later, QD.

[CHADbee]

APR 13th is my birthday!!!!
hell ya thats gonna be a good one.

[Stormhammer]

^^ lol

nah they'll prolly just pull of some armageddon shit or shoot a buncha nukes at it or something

you got 30 years to figure it out

[Master Shake]

i'll be here...waiting....maybe by then i'll have a bad-ass bmw and i'll just be able to get way from it while i can.

[Nismo]

Paint a huge racing stripe on the earth and it will spin faster and hop out of the asteroids way!

[redlinenprelude]

man ill be in my 50's ...

i wounder how old brett will be?

[gijoe0720]

man ill be in my 50's ...

i wounder how old brett will be?

Really old

[quickdodge®]

I'll be 66. Later, QD.

[Decker1.8t]

Good thing I just got my light saber from Game SPot. Later, QD.

[gijoe0720]

Wow QD, you are 20 years older than me.

[Mr. Antonov]

Wow QD, you are 20 years older than me.

so what does that make you.. like 12?

[quickdodge®]

Lolol. Later, QD.

[gijoe0720]

so what does that make you.. like 12?

18

[redlinenprelude]

qd 16???

[Brut]

what part of the world would it hit. i wanna make sure im not there

[quickdodge®]

I'm 36. Later, QD.

[Mr. Antonov]

what part of the world would it hit. i wanna make sure im not there

And how do you suppose they are going to predict that?

[Brut]

And how do you suppose they are going to predict that?

well how the hell did they predict a damn rock coming from outerspace in 30 years from now

[quickdodge®]

^^^ Nice sig, Mr. Antov. My paypal addy is ...........Later, QD.

[Mr. Antonov]

well how the hell did they predict a damn rock coming from outerspace in 30 years from now

Aliens.

[Brut]

Aliens.

lol

[IndianStig]

so what does that make you.. like 12?

im building a safehouse a mile below the surface of the earth

1 in whatever is too high for me

[Wurm]

hell the fuck yeah. Bout time something cool might happen in my lifetime.

[IndianStig]

hell the fuck yeah. Bout time something cool might happen in my lifetime.

near the end of your lifetime you mean, right?

[Wurm]

I will only be 50 something

[Wurm]

actually I will probally die before then dammit

[{X}Echo419]

Mark your calendar for Sunday, April 13, 2036. That's when a 1,000-foot-wide asteroid named Apophis could hit the Earth with enough force to obliterate a small state.

The odds of a collision are 1-in-6,250. But while that's a long shot at the racetrack, the stakes are too high for astronomers to ignore.

For now, Apophis represents the most imminent threat from the worst type of natural disaster known, one reason NASA is spending millions to detect the threat from this and other asteroids.

A direct hit on an urban area could unleash more destruction than Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Asian tsunami and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake combined. The blast would equal 880 million tons of TNT or 65,000 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

well... fuck it. guess I'll charge up the card! :idb:

[Ran]

Yea...I'll be 51 then. I'm sure my kids will have figured out how to stop it by then. If not...eh, sucks for them.

[HiPSI]

i wounder how old brett will be?

dead