Comments on: An asteroid almost smashed into Earth, and we only knew about it 15 hours before it happened

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:10:47 +0000

We aren’t likely to miss a world destroying asteroid until it’s right on top of us; those things are fairly big and relatively easy to see. The smaller bits of junk that’s harder to see until it’s right on top of us isn’t really an issue; at most it might ruin someone’s day if it crashes in to their house (since by the time it passes through the atmosphere it’ll be either non-existant or too small to do mass damage). There’s really no reason to drum up fear over it. You’re probably more likely to die to an airplane crash landing on you than dying from an 20 or so foot asteroid hitting the planet.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:42:54 +0000

Its not like it was the size of Delaware or worse. A 23 foot long asteroid might as well be counted among the space junk we have flying in orbit. The fact that they even found it is pretty surprising to me

By: mark

mark — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:58:59 +0000

the story is just like the movie RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN

By: MacTopher

MacTopher — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:27:19 +0000

“Last Night” is a great apocolypse movie. Disaster unspecified, but everyone knows when. Yes, it’s Canadian. Very Canadian in fact. Excellent because/despite that. Cronenberg is in it, but not directing.

By: Felipedeeznuts

Felipedeeznuts — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:15:09 +0000

It didn’t hit the atmosphere. No friction = no light. Maybe there was something special in your cig.

By: AllFiredUp

AllFiredUp — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:15:37 +0000

In a doomsday situation, I’ve always thought that I’d go ahead and do myself in at the moment of my choosing. It seems far better than waiting agonizing hours or even days for a horrific and violent death. Even worse, that I might actually survive the initial catastrophe and endure a far greater nightmare of dying a prolonged, slow death with any other initial survivors! We’d be plunged back into the stone age only to watch what remains of civilization devolve into a true hell on Earth! And each day the sky would turn darker, blocking out the sun and draining the life from every living thing that remains….

Not me! I’d be calling Dr. Kevorkian while communications were still functional…or just pass the cyanide, please! =)

By: German

German — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:58:44 +0000

Did he mean that 23 feet across would create mass destruction?
If so, not true. Anything over a mile wide would kill a lot of us, but not a tiny 23 feet asteroid.

By: Andrew Gonzalez

Andrew Gonzalez — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:49:40 +0000

I actually saw it, I was outside smoking with my buddy and it lit up the night sky like a giant spot light from a helicopter, but everywhere, looked up there was this massive streak in the sky that was rather wide silent, and the trail looked like a roaming candle with stuff exploding in the trail making it look like a catapillar, it was pretty sweet rtying to see if theres any images of it, I didnt have a camera and it was very unexpected.

By: Felipedeeznuts

Felipedeeznuts — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:01:21 +0000

Maybe he likes donkeys – I, however would most definitely spend my last hours on earth “buying ass”. Oh and I’d be playing on the skins team for sure. AIDS, SHMAIDS – No repercussions, remember? I would be so knee-deep in ass, I likely wouldn’t even feel the impact, you know, cause all the carnal impacting I’d be doin’.

By: Shaun Barnett

Shaun Barnett — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:59:53 +0000

blah blah blah…2012blah!

By: Enzer Milliard

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:12:51 +0000

The first thing people would do? Loot and riot, that’s generally what happens, when something horrible happens they loot. Sure they probably realize that they can’t actually use it any more but what the hell, why not? Personally… I’d go back to playing games on my computer… not like I’d be able to actually rescue an entire planet, this is in fact not hollywood.

There would be too much chaos among the civilian population that the likelihood of the people who could save the planet actually getting together and making a plan (if they hadn’t already before announcing it) would be almost not likely at all. Even if they had not been able to get together and started using electronic means, unless they tapped in directly to a satellite, they probably won’t be in communication for long because the riots would shut down the power and knock over cell towers.

Once you announce the asteroid is coming, the world is doomed, so it’s best to not announce it and hope you can solve the problem before the problem solves humanity.

By: Brian Conway

Brian Conway — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:28:07 +0000

Knowing my luck, I’ll find out the world is going to end in fifteen hours right after I get conformation that my Crunchpad has shipped… ;)

By: stephen

stephen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:36:58 +0000

Something scary to think about it.

By: Axonn

Axonn — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:21:02 +0000

“Can you even imagine what would happen? Scientists spot a gigantic asteroid that would surely cause planet-wide destruction, but they only discover it a few hours before it hits the planet.”

No risk at all, seriously. We spotted that one a few hours before BECAUSE it was small.

Big ones that will pass close in 2030 are already spotted.

By: tom

tom — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:14:16 +0000

Much rather we not know about it than knowing about it. The worst case is an object the size of a planet and everybody can see it coming closer and closer in the sky until it fills the whole sky. Ignorance is bliss.

By: Nicholas Deleon

Nicholas Deleon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:51:45 +0000

“Buying ass”? Or is there another way to interpret that other than prostitution?

By: Anthony Lopez

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:48:34 +0000

That’s why the government didn’t tell us. I knew I would have taken Friday off had I known about it.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:47:44 +0000

It sucks to think about it could really happen one day, i just hope if Earth’s about to be shit theirs a star fleet of ships awaiting with a great bunker , internet, and alien free.

By: PX4 Storm

PX4 Storm — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:43:15 +0000

Prostitutes?

By: bUGGA

bUGGA — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:38:26 +0000

How would twitter react?? FAIL Whale of course!!