Asteroid misses, meteor hits Earth. The sky is falling?

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• Dont want to close my eyes.

  Send Bruce Willis up to that rock and have Areosmith sing a song about it.

  

  Jason Cervantes

  15 February, 2013 03:28

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  • Re: Send Bruce Willis up to that rock

    Hollywood movies aren't going to save you from the real world. That's a real rock up there, moving real fast, and it's going to hit like a real bomb if it does hit. It's going to take real science and technology to deal with it, not movie-studio special effects.

    

    ldo17

    15 February, 2013 12:25

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    • I think

      Jason was kidding but I do believe Hollywood along with Bruce Willis & maybe Paris Hilton could do about as good a job dealing with it as "real science & technology". The very best that can do is predict when & where one might hit

      

      gordongr

      15 February, 2013 12:56

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      • Hey

        I am all for sending Paris Hilton and a few of her friends up to intercept that Rock!

        

        slickjim

        15 February, 2013 13:31

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        • *

          That's hot.

          

          adamtheestimator

          15 February, 2013 16:35

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        • Great idea

          It will pass close enough that we could also put all the "Housewives of New Jersey, Atlanta, etc." onto a rocket and drop them off on that rock as it passes.

          

          BillDem

          15 February, 2013 21:34

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        • BillDem .. you forgot

          all the people that ever appeared in Jersey Shore and Teen Mom .. the idiot creators of those series ... oh, and also the creators of the Survivor reality shows - and all the lame-ass, narcissistic b@$tards that ever appeared and competed on that show too.
          
          Then Hollywood can make a reality movie to end all reality shows - that the rest of us can actually, really enjoy: watching all that flotsam and jetsom get annihilated in the deep, dark vacuum of outer space ... thanks, of course, to the movie's hero: a giant asteroid.
          
          How "romantic" is that?? The detritus carried away by an asteroid (i.e. physical attachment) and the rest of the real, relatively normal folk left to carry on - with a debt of eternal gratitude to a giant space rock (i.e. emotional attachment).
          
          ... talk about blockbusters. ;P

          

          thx-1138_

          16 February, 2013 00:39

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    • lol

      you're so tough, why don't you just show it your big guns and scare it off at 17,000mph in the other direction? lol

      

      Naryan

      15 February, 2013 14:35

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    • breathe

      I'm sure Jason is worried now! His big plan was just a MOVIE? Crap!
      Glad you brought him back down to earth with your realism.
      Go outside and get some sunshine, and interact with someone, Sheldon.

      

      adamtheestimator

      15 February, 2013 16:38

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    • scary

      I know huh how scary oh by the way just to b clear im not being sarcastic.

      

      Frankie grace

      19 February, 2013 03:59

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    • Click on the 4th pic in this article & read.

      the one with the asteroid and earth then read that. They are considering something similar to that.

      

      Free Webapps

      20 February, 2013 06:21

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  • Dont want to close my eyes... but the train kept a rollin all night long..

    Steven Tyler probably saw the last one that came around.. heehee
    (..sorry S.T all in fun!)

    

    10W1V1

    15 February, 2013 16:05

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• And no one cared

  I wonder who would pay more attention to such an asteroid, the dinosaurs or humans?

  

  rgor@...

  15 February, 2013 03:36

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  • And yet...

    ...somebody bothered to report on something nobody cares about... not even the reporter.

    

    John L. Ries

    15 February, 2013 16:42

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    • Slow news day.

      I wonder if it is large enough to affect our tides... I may have to dust off a book and look up the calculation.

      

      BillDem

      15 February, 2013 21:37

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• Russia

  Well, something hit Russia. It was either a Meteorite or it was North Korea testing their missiles backwards in the wrong direction.

  

  aftershock14520

  15 February, 2013 08:12

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  • It may have been a coincidence...

    ...but maybe not. In any case, I think this might just inspire the Russian space program to embark on a new initiative.

    

    John L. Ries

    15 February, 2013 16:02

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  • North Korea

    It would be mindbogglingly stupid for the North Koreans to fire a missile over Russia, as they really don't need any more enemies, especially nuclear armed ones that happen to be neighbors.

    

    John L. Ries

    15 February, 2013 16:46

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    • Nuclear Armed

      Russia will not pollute it's lands with radioactive dust from North Korea. They have enough conventional arms to wipe that tiny country from the face of Earth. Or just ask their Chinese comrades for a favour.

      

      danbi

      15 February, 2013 21:46

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      • The Russians and Chinese...

        ...haven't been very good comrades since Nikita Khrushchev was in charge of the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 60s (Mao was loyal to Stalin's memory). At the moment, they appear to be occasional allies of convenience.
        
        But you're right that the Russians probably wouldn't bother with nuclear weapons. A small missile with a conventional warhead aimed at Kim Il-Sung's tomb would probably be a sufficient object lesson.

        

        John L. Ries

        15 February, 2013 23:07

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