<![CDATA[World might end in 2029...]]>According to Discovery Channel, Popular Mechanics, Space.com, and now MSN, we're going to closely dodge a bullet in 2029 and again 5 years later one will come even closer.

http://men.msn.com/articlepm.aspx?cp-documentid=1628365&GT1=8991

Friday the 13th of April 2029 could be a very unlucky day for planet Earth. At 4:36 am Greenwich Mean Time, a 25-million-ton, 820-ft.-wide asteroid called 99942 Apophis will slice across the orbit of the moon and barrel toward Earth at more than 28,000 mph. The huge pockmarked rock, two-thirds the size of Devils Tower in Wyoming, will pack the energy of 65,000 Hiroshima bombs -- enough to wipe out a small country or kick up an 800-ft. tsunami.

On this day, however, Apophis is not expected to live up to its namesake, the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and destruction. Scientists are 99.7 percent certain it will pass at a distance of 18,800 to 20,800 miles. In astronomical terms, 20,000 miles is a mere stone's throw, shorter than a round-trip flight from New York to Melbourne, Australia, and well inside the orbits of Earth's many geosynchronous communications satellites. For a couple of hours after dusk, people in Europe, Africa and western Asia will see what looks like a medium-bright star creeping westward through the constellation of Cancer, making Apophis the first asteroid in human history to be clearly visible to the naked eye. And then it will be gone, having vanished into the dark vastness of space. We will have dodged a cosmic bullet.

Maybe. Scientists calculate that if Apophis passes at a distance of exactly 18,893 miles, it will go through a "gravitational keyhole." This small region in space -- only about a half mile wide, or twice the diameter of the asteroid itself -- is where Earth's gravity would perturb Apophis in just the wrong way, causing it to enter an orbit seven-sixths as long as Earth's. In other words, the planet will be squarely in the crosshairs for a potentially catastrophic asteroid impact precisely seven years later, on April 13, 2036.

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thurmanmerman wrote:
livin with the hillbillies ftl

Shit, they'll probably leave just to keep away from us civilized folk.

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AFSil80 wrote:
EDIT: Fuck that, we've got the Appalachain Mountains that we can take refuge in if a tidal wave comes...

livin with the hillbillies ftl

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/137563https://fargostreet.com/post/137563Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:11:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to World might end in 2029... on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:04:28 GMT]]>Maybe I should stay in North Dakota instead of moving back to Georgia...

EDIT: Fuck that, we've got the Appalachain Mountains that we can take refuge in if a tidal wave comes...

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StangerBanger96 wrote:
According to almost everything i've heard from people who travel and studies and crap, the hottest women in America live up here. They just don't have the opportunity to dress half nekkid all year long like they do in Cali/Florida.

I can definately believe that. Just think about how wonderful it is when spring comes to the NDSU campus. :icon_cheers:

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/137517https://fargostreet.com/post/137517Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:30:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to World might end in 2029... on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:23:29 GMT]]>According to almost everything i've heard from people who travel and studies and crap, the hottest women in America live up here. They just don't have the opportunity to dress half nekkid all year long like they do in Cali/Florida.

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slowvo wrote:
whatever...just think of the hot chicks that we would have, and they would be uhh...whats that word...?

i think you might be looking for "easy" or "desperate" or "OMG the world is going to end, lets do it"

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/137508https://fargostreet.com/post/137508Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:07:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to World might end in 2029... on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:56:35 GMT]]>whatever...just think of the hot chicks that we would have, and they would be uhh...whats that word...?

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/137507https://fargostreet.com/post/137507Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:56:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to World might end in 2029... on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:24:45 GMT]]>^^why aren't you growing it?

Also the downside of us being the last to flood is that everyone from the east/west coasts would come here and we'd be flooded with retarded city fuckers.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/137496https://fargostreet.com/post/137496Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:24:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to World might end in 2029... on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:11:30 GMT]]>C'mon now you all know the world is going to end with nanobots that can build new ones of themselves with the stuff that is around them and we'll all be consumed by a mass of grey goo right? Seriously....

Oh yeah, I have a nuclear bomb shelter from the 60's that I would love to grow pot in.......

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/137494https://fargostreet.com/post/137494Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:11:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to World might end in 2029... on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:02:24 GMT]]>i think we should hurdle a DSM at it, that way its bound to break down and then it wont come any farther.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/137491https://fargostreet.com/post/137491Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:02:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to World might end in 2029... on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:22:14 GMT]]>there was this sweet show on the top 6 ways the world is going to end....forgot to record it thou, damnit! it was pretty crazy...

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/137484https://fargostreet.com/post/137484Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:22:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to World might end in 2029... on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:56:13 GMT]]>well at least if we get owned by floods we are the last ones in north america to go being in the middle and all, first positive thing i have thought of of living in north dakota

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/137466https://fargostreet.com/post/137466Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:56:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to World might end in 2029... on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:48:31 GMT]]>Lovin The Drug Dealer Behind The Darth Vader

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Jim wrote:
We just need to build a death star so we can blow that shiet up
legacy image

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/137434https://fargostreet.com/post/137434Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:12:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to World might end in 2029... on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:10:13 GMT]]>blame bush

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/137432https://fargostreet.com/post/137432Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:10:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to World might end in 2029... on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:06:10 GMT]]>We just need to build a death star so we can blow that shiet up

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/137431https://fargostreet.com/post/137431Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:06:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to World might end in 2029... on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:55:57 GMT]]>Well if it's going to hit us here in the Midwest I hope it hurrys it's ass up before my damn mortgage is paid off.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/137415https://fargostreet.com/post/137415Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:55:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to World might end in 2029... on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:53:14 GMT]]>Or like they did on robot chicken...send up Harrison Ford to destroy it

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/137394https://fargostreet.com/post/137394Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:53:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to World might end in 2029... on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:51:48 GMT]]>God will save us if we pray enough......damn, couldn't even type it with a straight face.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/137392https://fargostreet.com/post/137392Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:51:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to World might end in 2029... on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:45:17 GMT]]>lets just send Bruce Willis up there with a nuke and stuff...its worked before..

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heath wrote:
From what i had read NASA is still gathering data on its course and wont know for sure till it passes the earth on its next orbit. There were many options to move it just enough to get it to miss. None of them had anthing to do with blowing it up though.

Correct, blowing it up (especially when its close to earth) is worse than letting it hit. Either way, there is little that I can personally do to change the outcome of this comets path so rather than worry about it constantly, I plan to live my life like I always have.

:icon_joker:DRUNK!:icon_joker:

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Bookem wrote:
ObdI or ObdII?:D
obd0...noob

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heath wrote:
From what i had read NASA is still gathering data on it.

ObdI or ObdII?:D

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/137384https://fargostreet.com/post/137384Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:32:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to World might end in 2029... on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:57:40 GMT]]>yes, there are alot of NASA rumors spreading about...lets try and keep them staright lol

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