Holy xxxx, that was pretty close......

[schmalex]

bd big asteroid passed within 45k miles of earth

The worrying thing is that it was only spotted last Saturday

Edited by schmalex on Tuesday 3rd March 21:13

Edited by schmalex on Tuesday 3rd March 21:15

[tubbystu]

Well it has been pretty overcast the last couple of weeks

[sstein]

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Stuart

[juice]

sstein said:

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Stuart

Its OK, its gone now.

[loafer123]

sstein said:

+1

Worth reading.

[130R]

It's ok we can just send up the world's best deep core drilling team to nuke the rock from the inside like last time.

[King Herald]

tubbystu said:

Well it has been pretty overcast the last couple of weeks

[Jasandjules]

Must have been made up, Bruce Willis would have noticed and done something about it.....

Still, I bet that would have made a bit of a mess if it had hit us. You have to wonder whether NASA et al knew all about it and didn't mention it to save mass hysteria.

[sstein]

Jasandjules said:

Must have been made up, Bruce Willis would have noticed and done something about it.....

Still, I bet that would have made a bit of a mess if it had hit us. You have to wonder whether NASA et al knew all about it and didn't mention it to save mass hysteria.

Certainly would. An object travelling at cometary speeds impacts the earth over a densely (sp?) populated area and it's going to ruin a lot of peoples day.

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Stuart

[mondeoman]

sstein said:

Jasandjules said:

Must have been made up, Bruce Willis would have noticed and done something about it.....

Still, I bet that would have made a bit of a mess if it had hit us. You have to wonder whether NASA et al knew all about it and didn't mention it to save mass hysteria.

Certainly would. An object travelling at cometary speeds impacts the earth over a densely (sp?) populated area and it's going to ruin a lot of peoples day.

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Stuart

It'd sort out the banking crisis though wouldn't it?

[minimatt1967]

they just bounce off ala pinball machine, like at the beginning of '3rd rock from the sun' don't they?

[robinhood21]

That was a very close shave indeed. Could have taken out a City the size of London.

[benoli]

juice said:

Its OK, its gone now.

don't worry, what can we do about it anyway ?

i tell you, we're fked !

[Nigel Worc's]

robinhood21 said:

That was a very close shave indeed. Could have taken out a City the size of London.

That would be a blessing, nothing to worry about, providing it was actually effing London

[svm]

Gordon Brown prudently ensured that the UK was in a good position to survive any outer space economic catastrophe.

No need to panic folks.

[Merlot]

tubbystu said:

Well it has been pretty overcast the last couple of weeks

[robinhood21]

Nigel Worc's said:

robinhood21 said:

That was a very close shave indeed. Could have taken out a City the size of London.

That would be a blessing, nothing to worry about, providing it was actually effing London

I don't know about that; well certainly not North London. Perhaps a small one just for Downing Street.

[crmcatee]

it would have had to hit the plane carrying Gordon Clown to the US. Even for outer space hitting a plane at that sort of speed is a pretty tall order..

[*Raz*]

I nearly caught that with my bare hands

[hornetrider]

Joking aside, fk me. Quite liderally Carmageddon.