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Admiral Annihilation
Life. Universe. Everything.
Hydra Alliance
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Posted - 2007.09.30 04:11:00 -
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Edited by: Admiral Annihilation on 30/09/2007 04:12:00
Edited by: Admiral Annihilation on 30/09/2007 04:11:29
You and a team of astronomers and physicists have found a comet 50 miles wide and calculated without a shadow of a doubt it will strike the earth in 30 days. Striking the Pacific Ocean it will completely wipe out all coastal areas.Sending clouds of debris into the upper atmosphere blocking out sunlight for years and plunging the earth into an ice age extinction.
What do you do?
- Tell the government so that they may somehow send up a huge nuke to blow it into pieces? Well, all you done is take one comet and turn it into 50,000 that will all hit the earth.
- Tell the media, with NASA confirming that it will hit the earth. People freak out, mass looting, anarchy and chaos erupts and fills the earth in its last month.
- Tell no one. Burn the papers, destroy the hard drives and hope no one else sees it coming. Pros: No mass panic in earths last days. Cons: No final goodbyes to loved ones... but who cares we'll all be dead before we knew what happened.
Intresting to think about.
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Astra Siddhartha
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Posted - 2007.09.30 04:19:00 -
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30 days huh, that would mean I wouldnt be able to see the new eve graphics engine =/
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Crimsonjade
Union Of Xtreme Military
M. PIRE
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Posted - 2007.09.30 04:20:00 -
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 Originally by: Astra Siddhartha
30 days huh, that would mean I wouldnt be able to see the new eve graphics engine =/
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lofty29
Reikoku
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.09.30 04:21:00 -
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Someone's been watching Armageddon 
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Posted - 2007.09.30 04:24:00 -
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But we can always send in Bruce Willis to save us!
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Starfired
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Posted - 2007.09.30 04:26:00 -
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Originally by: Astra Siddhartha
30 days huh, that would mean I wouldnt be able to see the new eve graphics engine =/
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An Anarchyyt
Gallente
Sublime.
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Posted - 2007.09.30 04:31:00 -
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Edited by: An Anarchyyt on 30/09/2007 04:32:03
What about if a giant asteroid made of garbage is going to hit New York?
Originally by: CCP Wrangler
Second, a gentile is a non jewish person
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2007.09.30 04:36:00 -
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Originally by: Admiral Annihilation
You and a team of astronomers and physicists have found a comet 50 miles wide and calculated without a shadow of a doubt it will strike the earth in 30 days.
What do you do?
Since it must be 1950-1960 or so (no other way for this happening as you describe it)... tell the media 
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Benny Hill
Caldari
Deceased Inc
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Posted - 2007.09.30 04:49:00 -
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Paint a bullseye downtown San Francisco.
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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Minmatar
mUfFiN fAcToRy
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Posted - 2007.09.30 04:52:00 -
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Originally by: An Anarchyyt
Edited by: An Anarchyyt on 30/09/2007 04:32:03
What about if a giant asteroid made of garbage is going to hit New York?
We'll knock it away with a second ball of garbage 
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Tic Toc Tic Toc , time is ticking
Originally by: TheDagda
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For the love of the jovians stops necroing
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Dark Shikari
Caldari
Imperium Technologies
Firmus Ixion
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Posted - 2007.09.30 05:20:00 -
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Edited by: Dark Shikari on 30/09/2007 05:19:59
A nuke can't blow up an asteroid that size, but it can change its course.
The situation you've described is absurd and impossible: every object even close to that size has been catalogued and so forth. If we found something that size on a collision course, we'd know years in advance.
More likely we'd find a much smaller asteroid, on the order of 1-5 miles, and 3-6 months minimum in advance.
50 miles would wipe out basically all life on Earth; very very few asteroids of that size even exist in the solar system.
And, of course, a comet would be extremely obvious for obvious reasons
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Caid Lemant
Cunning Hats
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Posted - 2007.09.30 05:25:00 -
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Not to mention that an ocean impact is exactly what we'd want if it turned out to be unavoidable.
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lofty29
Reikoku
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.09.30 05:34:00 -
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Originally by: Caid Lemant
Not to mention that an ocean impact is exactly what we'd want if it turned out to be unavoidable.
Uhhh, mass flooding, freezing and polluted water / food supplies?
I'd rather be squished 
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Edsel
Dominus Nihil Development
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Posted - 2007.09.30 05:37:00 -
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Charter a yacht to go to ground 0 and invite family, friends and every gf IÆve ever had for a party.
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Caid Lemant
Cunning Hats
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Posted - 2007.09.30 05:47:00 -
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Originally by: lofty29
Originally by: Caid Lemant
Not to mention that an ocean impact is exactly what we'd want if it turned out to be unavoidable.
Uhhh, mass flooding, freezing and polluted water / food supplies?
I'd rather be squished
I'd rather not die gasping for breath because the atmosphere is on fire to then be followed by the death of 99% of all life dying out as there wont be a sun in the sky for years.
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lofty29
Reikoku
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.09.30 05:50:00 -
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Originally by: Caid Lemant
Originally by: lofty29
Originally by: Caid Lemant
Not to mention that an ocean impact is exactly what we'd want if it turned out to be unavoidable.
Uhhh, mass flooding, freezing and polluted water / food supplies?
I'd rather be squished
I'd rather not die gasping for breath because the atmosphere is on fire to then be followed by the death of 99% of all life dying out as there wont be a sun in the sky for years.
I said SQUISHED! Aka comet hits me right on the head.
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2007.09.30 05:51:00 -
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Originally by: Dark Shikari
And, of course, a comet would be extremely obvious for obvious reasons
NOTIFY: Obvious reason is already obvious. 
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Locus Bey
Gallente
Qalandar
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Posted - 2007.09.30 05:53:00 -
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My faith would be in backdoor bandit and a rocket for obvious reasons.
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Shainx
Schrodinger's Renegades
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Posted - 2007.09.30 05:55:00 -
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Edited by: Shainx on 30/09/2007 05:55:34
Originally by: Caid Lemant
I'd finally procure as much LSD and magic mushrooms as I could to go catatonic on or following the day it hit. An apocalypse always seemed like an event to be taken in while tripping.
Dying on acid would be the best way to go.
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Dirtball
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2007.09.30 06:14:00 -
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i'd think about it for 30 days and then i'd be like oh crap it's been 30 days
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Tecknoblaze
An Eye For An Eye
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.09.30 09:04:00 -
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I would **** in the ocean...welcome to earth mother ******!
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Wild Rho
Amarr
Endgame.
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Posted - 2007.09.30 09:09:00 -
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Get drunk and do my best to get laid as often as possible. Maybe punch some people I don't like as well.
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Death Kill
Caldari
direkte
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Posted - 2007.09.30 09:27:00 -
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Edited by: Death Kill on 30/09/2007 09:30:09
Originally by: Admiral Annihilation
. Striking the Pacific Ocean it will completely wipe out all coastal areas.Sending clouds of debris into the upper atmosphere blocking out sunlight for years and plunging the earth into an ice age extinction.
Sell my shares in the sunlotion industry.
edit : We will make IT
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Darwinia
Minmatar
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Posted - 2007.09.30 09:28:00 -
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Just to derail this discussion a bit. The whole 'splitting one dangerous object into many smaller dangerous one is bad' argument is hogwash. Splitting an incoming object into many smaller would have several advantages. While the affected area of impact would be larger, far more of it would burn in the atmosphere and the whole impact would be distributed over a larger area, so there is less chance of it triggering fault lines and rising minerals into the atmosphere to create acid rain. In case of an ocean impact, the fragments have far less chance of punching trough the ocean bed and the interference from several impacts is likely to reduce tsunamis.
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Death Kill
Caldari
direkte
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Posted - 2007.09.30 09:35:00 -
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Originally by: Darwinia
Just to derail this discussion a bit. The whole 'splitting one dangerous object into many smaller dangerous one is bad' argument is hogwash. Splitting an incoming object into many smaller would have several advantages. While the affected area of impact would be larger, far more of it would burn in the atmosphere and the whole impact would be distributed over a larger area, so there is less chance of it triggering fault lines and rising minerals into the atmosphere to create acid rain. In case of an ocean impact, the fragments have far less chance of punching trough the ocean bed and the interference from several impacts is likely to reduce tsunamis.
No. The smaller pieces will also be radioactive. And the 'smaller' pieces wont be small enough for them to burn up in the atmosphere either.
see what a 'small' asteroid/comet can do
The Tunguska event, sometimes called the Tunguska explosion, was a massive explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Under Rock) Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, between 7:00 and 8:00 AM on June 30, 1908.
The explosion was most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5 to 10 kilometers (3û6 mi) above Earth's surface. Different studies[1] yielded varying estimates for the meteor's size, including 60 meters[2], 90 to 190 meters[3] and up to 1200 meters in diameter[4].
Although the meteor or comet is considered to have burst prior to hitting the surface, this event is still referred to as an impact event. The energy of the blast was estimated to be between 10 and 20 megatons[5] of TNT ù 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The explosion felled an estimated 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometers (830 sq mi). It is estimated to have measured 5.0 on the Richter scale.
The Tunguska event is the largest impact event in recent history. An explosion of this magnitude had the potential to devastate large metropolitan areas had it occurred over a large city. This possibility has helped to spark discussion of ways to potentially stop large asteroids or comets from hitting Earth.
Good luck trying to blow up a large asteroid or comet. Chances are also that the ateroids own gravity will make it reassemble itself.
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Posted - 2007.09.30 09:37:00 -
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i whoud tell the media and then demand 30 day free time of eve.
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The Pointless
Gallente
Plastic Toys
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Posted - 2007.09.30 10:44:00 -
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Originally by: lofty29
Originally by: Caid Lemant
Originally by: lofty29
Originally by: Caid Lemant
Not to mention that an ocean impact is exactly what we'd want if it turned out to be unavoidable.
Uhhh, mass flooding, freezing and polluted water / food supplies?
I'd rather be squished
I'd rather not die gasping for breath because the atmosphere is on fire to then be followed by the death of 99% of all life dying out as there wont be a sun in the sky for years.
I said SQUISHED! Aka comet hits me right on the head.
The quick "I didn't see it coming" death then.
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anister
Black Omega Security
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2007.09.30 10:53:00 -
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*ani punches rho in the face
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Fink Angel
Caldari
The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.09.30 10:55:00 -
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Seeing as nukes are either dropped from bombers or launched as missiles using GPS to find their target, how exactly do they fire nukes into space to hit an asteroid?
My opinion is that you do nothing. The government(s) would not tell the populace in my opinion as that would cause a global breakdown and there's always the slight chance it may miss or something else happen (Be swung off course by the moon's gravity on the way?)
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LUH 3471
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Posted - 2007.09.30 10:56:00 -
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tell no one of course
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