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November 28th, 2007, 10:20 PM
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OT: Apophis is going to kill us all
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Its a big huge rock that is going to hit the earth in 2036.
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November 28th, 2007, 10:26 PM
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Re: OT: Apophis is going to kill us all
Even if it hits, it'll hardly be a world-killer. Sure, if it hits the water, they'll be a lot of dead on the coast. Sure, if it hits a city, there's going to be some widespread death.
It's hardly a "kill us all" asteroid, though.
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November 28th, 2007, 11:11 PM
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Re: OT: Apophis is going to kill us all
The current odds of impact are 1 in 220000:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/a99942.html
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Assume you have a 1kg squirrel
E=mc^2
E=1kg(3x10^8m/s)^2=9x10^16J
which, if I'm not mistaken, is equivilent to roughly a 50 megaton nuclear bomb.
Fear the squirrel.
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November 29th, 2007, 12:15 AM
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Re: OT: Apophis is going to kill us all
Those odds are good enough for a major news media outlet though, Spoo!
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November 29th, 2007, 01:24 AM
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Re: OT: Apophis is going to kill us all
I should be fine assuming it hits someplace insignificant like Riverside CA.
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November 29th, 2007, 02:20 AM
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Re: OT: Apophis is going to kill us all
With my luck it will hit my house. (Right after I get it paid off.) :0
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November 30th, 2007, 06:56 PM
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Re: OT: Apophis is going to kill us all
They are fairly efficient in situations where it's obvious whose fault the accident was (if anyone's). The biggest thing about ICBC that gets me is the lack of competition.
For example, when I was 18 and got my first vehicle, a 10 year old half-ton Ford F-150 4x4, my insurance rates were $1956 per year...and that's on a vehicle that's worth around $10,000 total. That was even with the 10% discount I got for not having been in an accident since I got my driver's licence (5% per year without an at-fault accident).
Had there been any real competition in the market, I highly doubt I'd have payed nearly so much; but the combination of my age, relative lack of driving experience, and lack of competition combined to siphon the money out of me at a horrendous rate! 
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December 3rd, 2007, 06:36 AM
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December 3rd, 2007, 10:51 AM
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Re: OT: Apophis is going to kill us all
You're not so much paying for the possible damage to your own car, but for the possibility of hitting a rich person.
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November 29th, 2007, 12:03 AM
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Re: OT: Apophis is going to kill us all
Alright ... its time for my favorite game ...  Using the web page at: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/
And inputing my favorite data: It impacts sedimentary rock, 50 mi away, it is made of porous rock, wikipedia's dimensions aren't false, etc. and the page's default assumptions, hit calculate and ... Meh, results are not very inspiring.
Now strap some ion rockets to the back and get it going at relativistic speeds, now we're having some fun |
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