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Record Meteorite Hits Norway
equex256 writes "Early Wednesday morning, a meteorite streaked across the sky in northern Norway, near Finland and Russia. A witness (Article in Norwegian) went up the mountain to where it hit and reported seeing large boulders that had fallen out of the mountainside, along with many broken trees. Norwegian astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard told Aftenposten, Norway's largest newspaper, that he would compare the explosive force of the impact with the Hiroshima bomb. This meteorite is suspected to be much larger than the 90-kilo (198-pound) meteorite which hit Alta in 1904, previously recognized as the largest to hit Norway. From the article: 'Røed Ødegaard said the meteorite was visible to an area of several hundred kilometers despite the brightness of the midnight sunlit summer sky. The meteorite hit a mountainside in Reisadalen in North Troms.'"
(See Niven and Pournelle for consequences of a larger one.)
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Do meteørites sound different with a slash through the middle?
Yeah its probably fake, but cool nonetheless:3 733199771&q=meteor
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=465344881
And for all you language nazis out there, meteorite is a silly word and should be abolished.
I guess but if I recall correctly hiroshima did a little bit more then just "blow in some curtains". Even if accurate this is a pretty bad metaphor, the Hiroshima bomb brings on ideas of destruction and chaos. Even if you took the radiation aspect away from the Hiroshima bomb it still would have done far more damage. Guess the whole line of "location, location, location" really is true.
I keep telling myself I'm not the desperate type.
I google news searched the topic ... and only got 1 result ... M&C Science & Nature ... Is this real?
Was it as big as the one that (supposedly) fell at Tunguska? Although I'm still pretty sure that was caused by dark matter or a UFO or something.
Steve Jobs's giant wallscreen sparkles to life. A visibly pale and shaken Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg appears with a panicked situation room full of Norwegian officials behind him.
"Ah, Prime Minister, good," Jobs says with a trademarked smile. "I see you got our little message. Let's finish our chat about DRM regulations...."
(reference)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Nø really! She was carving her initials intø the side øf a røck with a sharpened interspace tøøthbrush given tø her by Svenge -her brøther in law- an an øslø dentist and star øf many Nørweigan møvies: "The Høt Hands øf an øslø Dentist", "Fillings øf Passiøn", "The Huge Mølars øf Hørst Nørdfink"...
.....
Mynd you, Meteørite hits kan be pretti nasti
- "Scientia non habet inimicum nisp ignorantem"
Here is the website of the newspaper and pictures of the meteorite in the sky and the impact: http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article134 6820.ece
I for one, welcome our new chondrite overlords!
.. what we're really concerned about: Høw many møøses gøt killed?
I'm Rocco. I'm the +5 Funny man.
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Did they forget a metric conversion or somthing?
- "Scientia non habet inimicum nisp ignorantem"
Whenever the topic of meteors comes up, someone has to post a link to the University of Arizona impact effects calculator. Play with the numbers, see if you can destroy the earth.
Also worth checking out along the Lucifer's hammer line of thought is How to Destroy the Earth
I tried a quick reverse engineering of the meteor with the calculator. An iron meteor 4.5 meters in diameter moving 20 km/s hitting crystalline rock at 45 degrees will have a yield of 18 kilotons...slightly higher than the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima. The average interval of an impact of this size on earth is about once every 5 years. Most go largely unnoticed. The earth is a big place.
Most insurance policies don't cover "acts of God" or even "natural disasters" of this type. The tabloids probably wouldn't pay enough even if you mentioned Michael Jackson's love child was found there. Or were you expecting to mined what was left of the slag?
Steve Jobs has "contacts" all over the universe, I guess.
I wonder (1) how recent and what resolution Google Earth's latest imagery is, and (2) can we get them to take another shot ASAP and compare them?
There is a difference in how the energy was distributed. With the A-Bomb, it was an atmospheric blast. With the space rock, the energy was absorbed into the Earths crust.
Life is not for the lazy.
Actually, I saw a paper presented back in the late 90's that fairly convincingly made the case for a mostly iron meteor. The author's contention was that the object slowed due to air resistance, it would heat up. As is heated, the metal would have softenned. As it softenned, the metal would start to pancake like a dum-dum bullet. As it pancakes, its air resistance increases, causing it to slow down even more and heat up even faster, causing it to pancake even more... until you get an airbirst at an altitude with on the order of magnitude suggested by the tree angles at Tunguska. If you acept his hypothesis about the meteor's composition, there were no major contradictions in the evidence.
Though we've seen this information posted multiple places on the www, considering the nature of this beast how can anyone know if it's factual or not?
"That's funny, the damage doesn't look as bad from out here."
Brightness of midnight sunlit summer sky?
I think something got lost in the translation...
(Yes, i realize that it took place beyond the arctic circle, but it still sounds strange =))
> The tabloids probably wouldn't pay enough
maybe the tabloids wouldn't, but meteroites are worth more per pound than gold.
if you could recover a couple pounds of those 98 pounds you'll be buying any car you wanted.
Someone could make some SERIOUS money off that meteorite.
Im just happy that it didnt hit anywhere else. Like New York, or any other big city.
I almost (alomst!) wish it landed near enough one to cause some decent damage. Then maybe people would take the threat of a planet killer serious enough to get a properly funded space program going so a some of us could get off planet (like me). AD ASTRA!
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Yeah, but how many Libraries of Congress is that?
Well, Hiroshima was 15 kilotons or 6.3x10^13 J and one burning Library of Congress is 7.3×10^14 J, so ~8.5% of one LoC per meteor strike.
Yeah, I'm going to go pretend I didn't just spend part of my Friday night researching that calculation now...
"Farmer Peter Bruvold was out on his farm in Lyngseidet with a camera because his mare Virika was about to foal for the first time."
The photo was taken at 2:05am although it looked like they can still play a few rounds of golf before sunset.
I was wondering if the Norwegian (and their horses) ever sleep in summer.
These weird people are claiming it was some sort of weapon ETs will use to kill us, lol: http://www.savelivesinmay.com/
Ah, a very insightfull retort.
But you forgot to mention that the radioactive fallout would be much smaller, AND that the coordinates of the impact place it far from any city or industry.
You can't take the sky from me...
...or is he your cousin? I'm pretty sure that Noël Coward must be some relative of yours, since your last name isn't very common, and he has an ISO-8859-15 character in his first name.
Perhaps they allow it because the letter Ø tends to be included in almost all 8 bit ascii variants including the US ones. Kanji (Japanese) on the other hand does not.
Only if the Hiroshima bomb was a dud. Seriously, a bomb unleashing 63 terajoules of energy (from wikipedia). Even if that rock was 300kg, that means that it would have to be travelling at 648,000m/s or about 1,500,000 mph, in order to have the same amount of energy. Heck, that's about .0022c!
To say this guy overstated the impact is an understatement in itself.
We had one of these a few weeks ago in south east New Mexico. The explosion shook the house. People that did see it said it was the 'size of a dinner plate' before it exploded. Unfortunately nobody had a camera handy. Didn't get much media coverage at all.
Steve's Computer Service, Hobbs, NM
My guess would be the reason is because 1) "Ø" is a member of the standard Western character set on most computers and that 2) Japanese and Korean characters are not. The chance of a browser suddenly interpreting everything as garbage characters due to the inclusion of "Ø" would be rather small, whereas my Japanese OS sometimes refuses to accurately represent Japanese characters unless I manually tell it which of the three standards (Shift_JIS, EUC-JP, ISO-2022-JP) it should use. While I can't speak for Korean, Japanese characters also use a two-bit encoding which often cause problems when attempting to use without the relevent language packs installed.
Besides, if you want to use Japanese characters, just go to slashdot.jp
I thought NASA was tracking these things. This sounds like it was big enough to be a major disaster if it hit a metropolitan area. Are they just watching for the ones that are big enough to wipe out a state, and not a city?
I just can't see it working that way. The outer layers of the meteorite would turn to liquid and gas and carry off the heat generated by friction. Thermal conductivity is just too slow to heat up the core of a large body to the point where it will melt in (at most) a couple of seconds.
A better theory about Tunguska is that it was a loosely bound object like a "snowball" comet fragmennt or a "rubble pile" asteroid. Once it started to break up its surface area increased enormously and then it soaked up a lot of heat quickly and exploded.
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It means:
"Please come and eat our gelatinous fish, it's prepared with lye."
Sometimes my arms bend back.
..ønce bit mi sister...
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
hatt enorm fart
Don't be fooled by imitations.
Followed through to the link mentioned earlier: http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article134 6820.ece
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From that article, this one line jumped out at me: "Enorm fart."
Now granted, I don't speak the native tongue up there in Norway, but I think we all can translate that.
Also found this sesmic data on the web: http://www.norsar.no/NDC/bulletins/gbf/2006/GBF06
NORTH OF SVALBARD
Origin time Lat Lon Azres Timres Wres Nphase Ntot Nsta Netmag
2006-157:02.13.21.0 83.81 2.84 5.25 0.18 1.49 2 2 1 0.04
Sta Dist Az Ph Time Tres Azim Ares Vel Snr Amp Freq Fkq Pol Arid Mag
SPI 668.3 346.0 Pn 02.14.50.4 0.2 349.0 3.0 10.1 5.2 50.5 4.93 1 345124
SPI 668.3 346.0 Sn 02.15.55.8 0.2 338.5 -7.5 5.8 4.1 34.0 8.43 3 2 345125 0.04
The point is, neither the readers, nor the authors can relate to an atomic bomb. They simply have no personal knowledge of such energy. Thus, it's a pointless analogy.
Apple did this?
Nah... it was the RIAA/MPAA!
Although, guys, The Pirate Bay is in Sweden, not Norway.
Closer than usual though.
we need to know about trusting norwegians with things that fall from the sky
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Besides, if you want to use Japanese characters, just go to slashdot.jp
I prefer:
http://solidot.org/
(Maybe this is Chinese? I can't tell.)
Based on the guy in the photo, the story seems to be about some Norwegian relative of Steve Ballmer.
What, Superman is released soon...next there will be reports of flying men with capes originating from the meteor's site?
Once they get their targeting more precise Revenge of the Minkes might revisit Hiroshima.
-- Our systemic servants do not good masters make.
When I seven I was in our very large backyard swinging on our swingset with my friends one summer when we saw this streak of light high in the sky. It was only visible for a few seconds, but as we watched the streak grew brighter until it streaked over the roof of our house. About twenty or thirty feet above the ground it seemed to disintigrate with a popping sound. We searched the backyard for debris but didn't find anything. The meteorite was so small that I am not surprised, but it sure was bright for something so small. That was very cool. Even our neighbor on the hill above us came running down and said he saw the meteorite and wondered if it hit our house.
Years later as a teenager I was sleeping out on our deck to avoid the summer heat inside the house and I was woken by this shrieking sound, like fireworks, except much louder. I jumped up and saw a very bright, long streak of light screaching across the sky over the lake our house overlooked. As the meteor approached the ground the screaching got louder and higher in pitch until it seemed to "pop" into nothingness. Besides the incredibly high pitched shriek, I was awed by how bright the meteor was as it lit up our deck like a very bright lantern.
Obviously, both these meteorites do not compare in size to the one that hit Norway, but it was still an awe inspiring sight.
Yeah, I would have lost some good friends if it had hit NYC.
And a good chunk of my family, so it wouldn't have been all bad.
KFG
When it comes out the other side, will it be a dupe?
You are correct in that "ø" -> "oe" is a normal translation, although "ø" -> "o" is also sometimes used. The LaTeX command is "\o{}", html code is "ø". In Swedish the ø is written as "ö", but is otherwise the same character. The pronounciation is somewhat similar to the english words hurry and Sir, like "Yes, Sør, hørry up".
Some of the comments made here ( 15506917, 15507239, 15507258, 15506976, 15506998, 15507060) gives an almost childish "look ma, a funny character" impression, but I assume this is a monolingual atrtifact like described in this article:
When you are sure of something, you probably are wrong (search for "Unskilled and Unaware of It").
If around the meteor there's oddly a huge amount of worms that morph for days into two-head lizards, dragons and blue monkeys, get the hell outta there.
Smilla Jasperson was not available for comment.
Build a man a fire, he's warm for one night. Set him on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
For the given model of the object, it works, but if you make other assumptions about it's composition, it doesn't. As you say, much depends upon just out of what the thing is made.
By the way, I do not think that your argument here is valid.
And Wikipedia tells me: π is an irrational number with an infinite number of decimals, the first 50 being 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510, so I can only deduce that the proper Anglification of the number would be "3.14", as learned in school. This letter does not exist in the English language at all, so I assert that it has as much right to be in English documents as Korean characters do.
(unfortunately slashdot does not accept the pi characters as input, so I had to write as π)
When you are sure of something, you probably are wrong (search for "Unskilled and Unaware of It").
There goes my profits from selling Meteor Insurance.
Table-ized A.I.
Most insurance policies don't cover "acts of God" or even "natural disasters" of this type.
:)
Why do people still think we live in the 19th century?
Insurance policies today typically cover most Acts of God. Hail, lightning, windstorm, water damage, you name it. What they don't cover is "catastrophes so big we'd need a few billion to even start paying claims".
Hell, you can actually buy earthquake, tornado, and hurricane insurance, if you're willing to pay for it. However, your $400/year policy doesn't quite amoritize out to the 1 in 50 year chance of your part of the gulf coast being destroyed.
For the record (and to stay on topic): impact by falling object is generally covered. Some go far enough to ensure you for falling aircraft (creepy), and possibly falling spacecraft (satellites is the idea, but who knows what will happen this July).
And yes, I used to sell property insurance
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Assuming typical velocity, an iron asteroid would be a mere 22 miles across. The radiation would only be two-thirds that of the porus asteroid at the same speed.
If this was indeed the impact crater that triggered the initial phase of the Great Extinction, then the low density/high energy strike would produce vastly more heat and therefore affect the climate that much more.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
made the case for a mostly iron meteor. The author's contention was that the object slowed due to air resistance, it would heat up. As is heated, the metal would have softenned. As it softenned, the metal would start to pancake like a dum-dum bullet. As it pancakes, its air resistance increases, causing it to slow down even more and heat up even faster, causing it to pancake even more.
:-)
Metal? Pancake? You sir have just described a flying saucer. So much for ending the Tungusta conspiracy theories
Table-ized A.I.
Two issues with this. First, I think whatever hit Tunguska was probably bigger. Second, unless this thing kills most of the major species on earth, it's probabaly nowhere near the record.
It may be the biggest confirmed meteor though.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
The evening of December 24th, 1995 I was soaking in one of the famous cliffside hot tubs at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur. I heard a jetlike roar coming towards us from over the hills to the east. I looked up and saw, nearly overhead, what looked like the flame of welding torch, looking roughly an inch and a half or so long at arm's length, and quite low, perhaps 500-600 feet. At first I thought it was a jet fighter on afterburner, but I couldn't see a silhouette of an aircraft against the stars. As it passed over and out to sea, I saw it break into at least two pieces just before the flame went out. The pieces must have fallen into the water, but I didn't see or hear any splashes. Then I realized it was a meteor, and that I'd been close enough to hear it!
Sadly, I was also the only person in the hot tubs geeky enough to look up and see the whole thing and to be totally thrilled by this experience....
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Then maybe people would take the threat of a planet killer serious enough to get a properly funded space program going so a some of us could get off planet (like me).
Do you really think colonizing other planets is a rational and proportional response to this sort of threat?
If so, can you describe a plausible "planet killer" threat which would make Earth so inhospitable to human life that you'd actually be better off somewhere else in the solar system?
Martin
Whoa whoa whoa...
Where's Pat Robertson? I need his opinion! Who's immorality caused this?
I bet it was those people over at digg....
A møøse once bit my sister
What are the coordinates? Has Google Maps been updated to show the damage?
That's it! I've finally found a name for my firstborn son! 8)
And since we will all die some day anyway, what would it really matter if the human race was annihilated?
Wasn't this the meteor that was suppost to be here last week?
Where's Bruce Willis at a time like this?
Was Kenya right about Norway?
So many questions, so little time!
The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
Technically a meteorite didn't streak across the sky; a meteor streaked across the sky. Once it hits Earth the pieces are meteorites, and before it entered the atmosphere it was an asteroid.
Saying a meteorite streaked across the sky is like saying ham likes to wallow in the mud.
Kevin Fox
That's unpossibøle!
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Some of those comments are references to the opening credits of Mønti Pythøn lk den Hølie Grailen.
A meteor will one day hit the earth and you will find your dog dead, your car destroyed, you house burned, your family suffocated, your job gone, your money useless, your government pointless, and life as you knew it forever and completely changed. You may survive but we doubt it.
How likely is that, exactly?Must have been a Microsoft Meteorite (TM)(R) - They programmed it to hit Finland, and it missed.
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Ah, I was not aware of that. Thank you for the enlightenment. I see now that some of them makes more sense, but when writing for a large audience like slashdot, whatever cultural references you use, someone are guarantied to not get them. I therefore prefer to always include a little hint or reference to counter that, like for instance in this post. It was moderated redundant which was sort of fair enough since it was not the first reference to digital watches being overrated, but all of the then existing posts assumed that the reader already had knowledge of Douglas Adams' works. That is why I wrote mine.
When you are sure of something, you probably are wrong (search for "Unskilled and Unaware of It").
Offtopic: The newspaper Aftenposten is not Norway's biggest newspaper. The biggest is Verdens Gang (Short:VG), followed by Dagbladet. Aftenposten is 3rd. Sloppy submitter.
It wasn't really a meteorite that hit northern Norway, it was that guys chair. He was quoted as saying "Jeg ska døde Gøøgle!" before putting on his viking helmet and hurling the chair out his window. According to the article he stated that noones sister was hit by the chair while carving her name in a rock.
After climbing a little higher, he found a large, glowing piece of rock. He walked around it, astonished, and from one angle you could see an unmistakable engraving on the side.
LEAVE THE PIRATES ALONE
I for one hope this will wake up more people to the fact that metorites and near earth objects are a real and present threat to the entire planet. Had this hit a city, millions of people could have died. And thats just from a small meteor. Imagine if one measured in miles had hit the planet. I'm a firm believer that the US should have a manned space program. But I wish the military was more involved in it. Too many people think science is the only thing we can do in space right now and that is far from the truth. We need experience in finding astroids and moveing them if they are a threat to earth. Also I believe that we need enough people living in space so that if the earth is destroyed there will be enough people to continue on without earth.
See? That's what happens when you piss off Steve Jobs.
Pi is not a letter in English; it is a symbol representing the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. We don't write out some Greek guy's name in English documents using π we use the English letter 'p' instead. Similarly, we use the ampersand as a symbol which represents the concept of "and"; one could, however, make the argument that it is included as a holdover of the old-English alphabet: in 1100 CE, the English alphabet included the ampersand after 'z', and, additionally, thorn and a few other letters which may still be seen in Icelandic. Interestingly enough, one of the old English letters which shares a common ancestor with Ø is not allowed on Slashdot, yet the Ø is.
Boy does that show a serious lack of imagination.
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
A witness went up the mountain to where it hit and reported seeing ...
Oh no! I've seen this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094761/
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There goes the neighborhood.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Google own Keyhole, which commands a few satellites? The sats certainly aren't dedicated to Google Earth, but I'm sure the GE staff can request some tasks.
The -ite ending has been used extensively in geology to name rocks and minerals. Once meteroids have fallen on the ground it becomes apparent they are rocks and thus deserve an -ite ending, and even the various types of meteorites or the minerals in them have -ite endings: Pallasites, Mesosiderites, Diogenites, Howardites, eucrites, Chondrites, Enstatite, Bronzite, Amphoterite, Olivine-pigeonite, Ataxites, octahedrites, Hexahedrites.... We might as well rename everything and rewrite every geology and astronomy book on the planet.
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It used to be possible to use Japanese characters on Slashdot, but that was removed for reasons unknown to me.
Northern Norway means one thing to men between 17 and 30. A wasted year at a stone cold and isolated place, like for instance Reisadalen.
Dear meteorites,
Next time you come to Norway, please destroy Porsangmoen!
Here is the record meteorite
METEORITE: This shining object was visible over great parts of North Troms and Finnmark Tuesday night.
PHOTO: Peter Bruvold
Seven minutes later it crashed into North Troms
OLE-THOMAS STEIRO ANDERSEN Friday 9th of June, 10:30am
Updated 03:47am
(Dagbladet.no): Reisadalen in North Troms was Tuesday night hit by an astronomic sensation. Short after 02:00am several Tromsø citizens observed heavy light flicker from an object on the night sky. The meteorite moved over the sky and left a trail of smoke before it hit a high barren plateau in Reisadalen in North Troms.
- I saw a flash like the one in a camera, but much more powerful. The object went in a line and down in the horizon, says farmer Peter Bruvold to Dagbladet.no. He guesses that there went about seven minutes before the enormous blast could be heard all over the area.
GROUND ZERO: The map shows the direction of the sound signals observed by NORSAR's station in Karasjok.
Illustration: NORSAR
It was a reasonable powerful blast. The earth shook and the curtains waved. My first thought was that it must have been a dynamite explosion nearby. When I heard the sound of falling stones, I thought it was a avalanche of stones, says Wenche Offerdal to the newspaper Nordlys . She is one of the many Troms citizens who had their houses shaken Tuesday night.
Big pieces of stone have been shaken out of the cliff on the presumed ground zero. Many of the surrounding trees broke right off.
- International attention
The earthquake station in Karasjok registered both seismic and sonic waves from the crash. It is yet to early to say anything about the meteorites dimensions, but from the readings made so far astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard at Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics thinks that the stone could have weighted up to a ton. In that case it is over 10 times as big as the biggest meteorite ever observed in Norway. The old record is from 1904, when a 90 kilo meteorite hit Finnmark.
- This is extremely exciting. You can imagine something this good, but when it happens it is unbelievable says Røed Ødegaard to Dagbladet.no.
- If it is as big as I think it can be, it will not last long before the world's press comes to North-Troms. This will create attention internationally, says Ødegaard.
There has been found 13 meteorites in Norway, last time in Gloppen municipality in Nordfjord in 2001. A meteorite contains stone or nickel and enters the earth's atmosphere with a speed of 100,000 km/h. The stone gets heated by air resistance, and when the surface vapourises, it gets visible as a powerful flashes.
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Quotes from the site:
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Mr. Gore is ALWAYS right ! The difficulty is to know what he's right about today.
How many beans make five, anyhow ?
There is a lot of this going round - especially in Alabama. The good news is that it can be cured. Stay out of Alabama on the first of April - simple.
How many beans make five, anyhow ?
If so, can you describe a plausible "planet killer" threat which would make Earth so inhospitable to human life that you'd actually be better off somewhere else in the solar system?
How abou the 6 mile wide asteroid that was supposed to have wiped ouot the dinosaurs? Some meteor large enough to kick up enough dust into the atmosphere to cause a multi-year winter?
A different dissaster could be when one of the super volcanos blows (such as the one that Yellow Stone national park is in. Or, WW3 is always a possibility as well.
Single planet species don't survive.
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
For some reason, when I first read this, I thought the RIAA would try to sue someone.
This new math of yours is amazing! Tell me again how sheep bladders can be used to prevent earthquakes.
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