We're all doomed III
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27039285

:eeek:

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Someone get a BFG

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Getting vaporised by an A-Bomb or an asteroid stike doesn't seem like a bad way to go. Better than wasting away in a care home. And of course, everyone gets it so it's not just personal suffering.

Besides, it's a case of <BANG, WHITE LIGHT, DEAD and GONE> It would happen quicker than it took me to type that description. What's not to like? :)

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Heh. It's not about if the planet and everything on it is wiped out, but when.

The budgets for NASA, etc, seem a little small now, don't they?

To be fair the biggest risk to us remains ourselves. Either through completely destroying the environment in any one of the numerous ways we are working on that aim, or blowing ourselves up the odds are that we'll kill ourselves. If the theories are correct we wouldn't be the first and won't be the last sentient race to do so either.

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I dare say a nice catastrophic event looming on the horizon in the form of a giant asteroid heading right at us would change a great deal. Just a pity it'd probably take something like that to make it happen.

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You may find http://www.natgeotv.com/ca/evacuate-earth interesting.

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Thanks.

If we were forced to build a giant spacecraft to escape a doomed Earth, you can bet there'd be touts out selling tickets for it... :D

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Funny you should say that. We'll have a chat later - see what kind of deal I can do for you...

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OK matey, but I only want the pukka seats... :D

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Wouldn't it be more a case of <WHITE LIGHT, DEAD and GONE, BANG>? Due to the speed of sound being slower than light (which I asume is the bit that burns us all to a crisp). But then that opens up a new version of the old philosophical question - would a big asteroid hitting the earth make a bang if there was nobody left to hear it?

Cheers

Grim

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No way! In the version subsequently uploaded to YouTube it will definitely be bang, light, death. And to a hip hop beat with the lyric "there goes the planet turn off" :)

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I wold have thought a 600 kiloton explosion would have been a bit more noticeable:shrug:

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Depends what you were doing at the time I guess... ;)

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Depends where in the world it happened. People in the UK probably wouldn't have noticed the 50-58MT Tsar Bomba detonation, though people closer to it would have been quite aware - due to atmospheric effects it broke windows over 550 miles from ground zero and flattened pretty much everything within 30 miles.

That from something nearly 100 times the power of that largest asteroid impact, and which would have felt more powerful than that as it air burst while the meteorite ground burst. A 'mere' 600kt ground burst wouldn't need to be that far away from human settlement to have gone without notice.

EDIT: The fascination I have with nuclear armageddon concerns me.

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It's all becoming clearer now. The Large Hadron Collider will be re-started just in time to create a black hole which will swallow up the offending asteroid.

Either that or we're all dead.

Yeah, I know, I'm working on my prediction skills (I've reached Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy level 1) :)