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Simulation Of An Asteroid Impact In The Year 2880

Posted by timothy on from the only-a-test dept.

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

    She was a girl from Birmingham
    she just had an abortion
    she was a case of insanity
    her name was Pauline she lived in a tree

    She was a no-one who killed her baby
    she sent her letters from the country
    she was an animal
    she was a bloody disgrace

    Body I'm not an animal
    Mummy I'm not an abortion

    Dragged on a table in a factory
    illegitimate place to be
    in a packet in a lavatory
    die little baby screaming

    Body screaming fucking bloody mess
    it's not an animal it's an abortion

    Body I'm not an animal
    Body I'm not an abortion

    Throbbing squirm, gurgling bloody mess
    I'm not a discharge I'm not a loss in
    protein I'm not a throbbing squirm Ah!

    Fuck this and fuck that
    fuck it all and fuck the fucking brat
    She don't wanna baby that looks like that
    I don't wanna baby that looks like that.

    Body I'm not an animal
    Body i'm not an abortion

    Mummy! Ugh!

  2. 400 foot waves? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    they predict that the '60,000 megaton blast' would create 400 foot waves along the east coast

    Hrmm, the destruction of New York and New Jersey.....

    I almost wish I would be alive to see it.

  3. Atlanta Niggas will blame the white honkies by zymano · · Score: -1, Troll
    A 400 foot tidal wave will clean out the ghetto. So it's not too bad.

    We will hear some real tight rap shit come out Atlanta.

  4. Re:The book of horrible questions by Hellkitten · · Score: -1, Troll

    would you allow the United States to sink into the ocean 500 years after your death in exchange for an ATM card that can remove money from any ATM without taking money from your account.

    Hell yeah, if I had the choice I might even give up the card to have it happen tomorrow

    Seriously though the disapperance of the United States would probably be a good thing for the world in general, a small non nuclear civil war that breaks it up into the individual states would be a good thing. Then just maybe americans would have to learn to cooperate with the rest of the world

    And btw I'm not canadian :)

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  5. Re:Asteroids: liberal myth by VanillaCoke420 · · Score: 1, Troll
    The Bible was written by many people throughout hundreds of years. These people were not perfect, they were not divine, they were people. Sometimes, they were people who saw talking burning bushes and angels and whatnot. Where is god today? Where are the angels? If someone would claim he is talking to god, not many people would believe him. They would, however, be ready to believe a really old book about people talking to god.

    The problem is that religious people don't seem to know why they are religious and why that specific religion. Why islam? Why christianity? In most cases, I would suppose, it has to do with their upbringing. They were told certain "truths" and eventually it becomes the Truth. Why do they believe the creation myth? What makes THAT story so much more likely than any other creation myths, for example? After all, none of them were based on any observations.