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Cyclones01

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my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandchildren are totally screwed!
 

Clone1138

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Ha! Joke's on you, Asteroid, we'll already have destroyed the planet by ourselves.

I'm guessing that with our luck, 2880 will be the year the Iowa State finally has a shot at a football National Championship only to see it cut short when the asteroid hits during halftime.
 
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pourcyne

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I'm not worried thanks to the Rosetta probe that has already rendezvoused (eh, it's a European probe, after all) with Comet P67P/CG, taking its picture and posting all over the internet to prove that it's not really a comet, just a flying ice-pig. The humiliation on Facebook alone will certainly cause this fugly comet to implode. I'm sure the same technique will work on the bigger comet. Social media will once again save the earth from destruction. Mark my words.

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PabloDiablo

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Relax y'all. We'll be fine.

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Man, I'm glad you picked that crew and not the crew of unsuccessful bums from Deep Impact.
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Clone1138

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Man, I'm glad you picked that crew and not the crew of unsuccessful bums from Deep Impact.
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Sir, I will have you know that Robert Duvall's Captain Spurgeon "Fish" Tanner was no bum, but an American hero!

Sure they only the blew up one of the two asteroids and the remaining one decimated the entire east coast, but those are minor details.

Seriously though, Deep Impact blew goats. It was like the Lifetime movie version of a disaster film. Tea Leoni as the main character tells you all you need to know. She's more worried about rekindling her relationship with her deadbeat dad than the end of the world.
 

Wesley

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The asteroid has a diameter of one kilometre and is travelling at nine miles a second relative to the Earth, which it would hit at 38,000 miles per hour.
The impact would have a force of around 44,800 megatonnes of TNT and cause a huge explosion, tsunamis and change the climate of the globe, devastating human life.

We better do something now. Is O back from vacation?
 

jdoggivjc

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Researchers at the University of Tennessee have discovered that blowing the space rock up could make the collision worse by causing several devastating impacts.

Are we even sure it's space rock in the first place?

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