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Simulation Of An Asteroid Impact In The Year 2880

JoeRobe writes "Researchers at UCSC have simulated a possible outcome of an impact by asteroid 1950DA when it passes near us in the year 2880. Note that there is a 0.3% chance of impact during that encounter. In the event that it impacts in the Atlantic, they predict that the '60,000 megaton blast' would create 400 foot waves along the east coast. In addition to an assessment of the danger, their studies point out the resulting geologic features that we should be looking for now, which would indicate where and when such impacts have occured in the past."

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  1. hot grits in my pants? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    3rd post, maybe? I should really look into getting that subscription so I can get all of those plums. I love plums!

    1. Re:hot grits in my pants? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      you made me think of plums 555 manbabies

  2. Re:This Article Sucks! Inspirational lyrics below by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So you've been to school
    for a year or two
    And you know you've seen it all.
    In Daddy's car
    thinking you'll go far
    Back east your type don't crawl.

    Playing ethnicky jazz
    to parade your snazz
    On your five grand stereo.
    Braggin' that you know
    how the niggers feel cold
    And the slum's got so much soul.

    It's time to taste what you most fear
    Right Guard will not help you here.
    Brace yourself, my dear...
    Brace yourself, my dear...

    For a Holiday in Cambodia
    It's tough, kid, but it's life.
    It's a Holiday in Cambodia
    Don't forget to pack a wife.

    You're a star-belly sneech
    You suck like a leech
    You want everyone to act like you.
    Kiss ass while you bitch
    So you can get rich
    While your boss gets richer off you.

    Well, you'll work harder
    with a gun in your back
    For a bowl of rice a day.
    Slave for soldiers
    'Til you starve
    Then your head is skewered on a stake.

    Now you can go, where the people are one.
    Now you can go where they get things done.
    What you need, my son...
    What you need, my son...

    Is a Holiday in Cambodia
    Where people are dressed in black.
    A Holiday in Cambodia
    Where you'll kiss ass or crack

    (instrumental break)

    (chanting)
    Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, etc.,...

    It's a Holiday in Cambodia
    Where you'll do what you're told.
    It's a Holiday in Cambodia
    Where the slums got so much soul
    Pol Pot.

    Dead Kennedys

  3. Re:This Article Sucks! Inspirational lyrics below by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    DENY EVERYTHING
    i'm innocent until i'm proven guilty deny everything, deny everything i'm being framed, it's all a set-up deny everything i'm just a spoke in the wheel just a part of the puzzle a part of the game i'm being framed innocent 'till i'm proven guilty deny everything, deny everything deny everything, deny everything!

    I JUST WANT SOME SKANK
    empty frame on the wall cat & mouse when you don't call all i do is think of her the tv screens picture's blurred so take it away! take it away! every night the scene is set i've go to drink to forget i cannot incur this debt where's the gun? here's my head! let's go to the hongkong, breaking glass at madame wong's let's go buy a pint of booze getting drunk, getting loose i just want some skank, i just want some skank i just want some skank, i just want some skank passing flyers at the troub seven nights, seven 'ludes what's the deal with this band? let's go roll some fields, man i just want some skank, i just want some skank i just want some skank, i just want some skank every night would be so great i'd take you home to meet mom & dad and they'll be so glad they won't think their boy's a fag then we'll go upstairs and go to bed

    BEVERLY HILLS
    beverly hills, century city everything's so nice & pretty all the people look the same don't they know they're so damn lame? there she goes in a three piece suit spandex pants, cowboy boots i don't know what i'm gonna do i don't know what i'm gonna do! maybe i'll have to even move from... beverly hills, century city everything's so nice & pretty because all the people look the same don't they know they're so damn lame? three piece suit, spandex pants cowboy boots, fiorucci, too! beverly hills, century city!

    OPERATION
    i went to see a rabbi but despite his advice i want an operation i will not father life operation, operation snip & tie, snip & tie they sent me to a preacher a really thoughful guy he said my idea's crazy i shouldn't even try but i've just seen a surgeon and with a knife he cut i cannot bring you children this world is such a rut i had an operation a statement of our times they tied my balls together what's inside's not alive

    BACK AGAINST THE WALL
    you yell out in defiance you're backed up against the wall they're up there clutching their guns, man and it makes you feel small so you can cuss, spit, throw bottles, broken glass but it all ends up with handcuffs on you hands you run around and spray paint graffiti on everybody's wall you think that's bitchen, man? that ain't nothin at all! so you can cuss, spit, throw bottles, broken glass but it ends up with a swift kick to your ass

    WASTED
    i was so wasted, i was wasted i was so wasted, i was wasted i was a hippie i was a burnout i was a dropout you know i was out of my head i was a surfer i had a skateboard i was so heavy man i lived on the strand i was so wasted i was wasted i was so fucked up i was so screwed up i was so jacked up i couldn't get any higher than that i was so pilled up i was so nebbed out i was so jacked up i was out of my head i was so wasted i was wasted

    BEHIND THE DOOR
    mister give me the key point me to the stairs i don't know what waits for me in... room 13! room 13! dim lit stairway stains on the floor looking for 13 what's behind the door? room 13! room 13! prostitutes, hypes & thugs meet me on the way bare ceilings, just blank walls blank walls, that's okay prostitutes, hypes & thugs meet me on the way empty bottles, spots of blood that's cool bro', that's cool 'cause who waits for me? a whore, a bullet, a thug? what waits for me? a whore, a bullet, a thug? that's okay, room 13 that's okay, room 13 turn around i'll walk away turn around i didn't want to stay there anyway

    WORLD UP MY ASS
    i've got the world up my ass and i'm gonna move fast gonna be the first won't be the last i've got the world up my ass society is burning me up take a bite, then spit it out take their rules rip 'em up, tear them down twisted mind, withered brain you know i'

  4. Announcement of Great Religious Significance by Cmdr.+Taco+SuxDix · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry to interrupt, but Jesus just sent me a message through /dev/urandom. The message is "CUMBOX VR". I don't know what it means. It might be Nintendo's secret console project.

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  5. Re:Hope... by aardwolf204 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. Who cares by Timesprout · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We have wrecked the earth by then and will all be living on other planets in the solar system. Set your tivo's now cos presumably they will televise it.

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    What truth?
    There is no dupe
  7. Re:One things that I haven't seen addressed ... by rock_climbing_guy · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Actually, one thing that I hadn't anticipated was that an article about an asteroid report would prompt me to post a comment, which would be modded up, raising my karma from 'good' to 'excellent.'

    Slashdot is still a game; we just stopped keeping score.

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  8. atleast the trolls will be happy by ramzak2k · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BSD & Stephen King will all be really dead then. They might shed a tear for the goatse guy.

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  9. Wow...you got a 2 mod rating......fucking cool.... by zymano · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    stephen king should be dead. His books are definitely dead.

  10. Re:This would cause.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ænima may go uranium, say record industry insiders.

  11. Re:Atlanta Niggas will blame the white honkies by JPM+NICK · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That was hysterical. I wish I had mod points.

  12. Re:UC SANTA CRUZ by madsenj37 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Grades are now the standard (default) here at UCSC. As far as I know, us older students are the only ones left who can choose which classes we want grades in.

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  13. 900th birthday!! by smegball · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Massive tsunami sweeps Atlantic Coast in asteroid impact scenario for March 16, 2880...

    Just in time to celebrate my 900th birthday!!!
    Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear-- Ahhhhh Massive tsunami coming...gurgle...gurg...