This.pirana6 wrote:
Then again, the amount of light disappearing from single residences might be negligible compared to the metropolis lights that stay on the whole night.
NASA camera?
And the area between Dallas and Houston is nowhere near New Mexico.globefish23 wrote:
This.pirana6 wrote:
Then again, the amount of light disappearing from single residences might be negligible compared to the metropolis lights that stay on the whole night.
Illumination in cities and along roads is pretty much activated all the time.
They are usually automatically triggered by a light sensor at dusk.NASA camera?
That footage looks like from a dashboard camera or a mobile phone.
Did it pass through the gravitational window already? I thought that wasn't suppose to happen for years.Trotskygrad wrote:
Apophis is coming
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there's going to be 3 close ones, this year (today), 2029 (that image), and 2036. It might impact on 2036 but that depends on how close it comes during the first 2 passes... however if it does impact it won't be that bad, no "long-term effects" or so the scientists say (it would also be on water)Narupug wrote:
Did it pass through the gravitational window already? I thought that wasn't suppose to happen for years.Trotskygrad wrote:
Apophis is coming
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Seems that it was downgraded to a Torino level 0 back in 06. Now good old 2007 VK184 is a 1 for impact in 2048 with a .055% chance of an impact.Trotskygrad wrote:
there's going to be 3 close ones, this year (today), 2029 (that image), and 2036. It might impact on 2036 but that depends on how close it comes during the first 2 passes... however if it does impact it won't be that bad, no "long-term effects" or so the scientists say (it would also be on water)Narupug wrote:
Did it pass through the gravitational window already? I thought that wasn't suppose to happen for years.Trotskygrad wrote:
Apophis is coming
Man would probably go and screw it up. We'd get break out into global war as people started trying to save their own butts anyway they could think of. I would like to think mankind would get together and try and try to either figure something out to ensure the survival of our species or go out in a respectable manner, but I can't help thinking it will just end up being every man for himself.aynrandroolz wrote:
i kind of want a 'total extinction of all life' scenario to come up. does no one else sort of idealistically long for a large hunk of rock and a definite date with our doom? it'll be the first thing in the history of the human species that will bring us together and help us overcome all of this petty-ideological bullshit. and then, just as we're finally getting it together, the briefest glimpse of utopia, it'll all be over. would make a great tear-jerking CGI movie for aliens sat in a cinema, several galaxies away.
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I think that people would turn to whatever they think could save them, whether it be religion, science, or some other thing.Narupug wrote:
Man would probably go and screw it up. We'd get break out into global war as people started trying to save their own butts anyway they could think of. I would like to think mankind would get together and try and try to either figure something out to ensure the survival of our species or go out in a respectable manner, but I can't help thinking it will just end up being every man for himself.aynrandroolz wrote:
i kind of want a 'total extinction of all life' scenario to come up. does no one else sort of idealistically long for a large hunk of rock and a definite date with our doom? it'll be the first thing in the history of the human species that will bring us together and help us overcome all of this petty-ideological bullshit. and then, just as we're finally getting it together, the briefest glimpse of utopia, it'll all be over. would make a great tear-jerking CGI movie for aliens sat in a cinema, several galaxies away.
Keep dreaming, uzique. It would be mass looting and chaos.aynrandroolz wrote:
i kind of want a 'total extinction of all life' scenario to come up. does no one else sort of idealistically long for a large hunk of rock and a definite date with our doom? it'll be the first thing in the history of the human species that will bring us together and help us overcome all of this petty-ideological bullshit. and then, just as we're finally getting it together, the briefest glimpse of utopia, it'll all be over. would make a great tear-jerking CGI movie for aliens sat in a cinema, several galaxies away.
Launched by Russian rockets though.Macbeth wrote:
An asteroid hurling at Earth would make all the nations circle around the U.S. while we save the Earth with the most advanced space program in existence.
money does wonders to a space program.Dilbert_X wrote:
Launched by Russian rockets though.Macbeth wrote:
An asteroid hurling at Earth would make all the nations circle around the U.S. while we save the Earth with the most advanced space program in existence.
that's what she saidMacbeth wrote:
We should still try to blow it for practice.
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