Final Coming Soon?

[Lil Red]

[quote name='Groo the Wanderer' post='1094966' date='Oct 18 2006, 11:59 AM'] I'll dye willingly![/quote]you'll dye your hair willingly?

[cmotherofpirl]

oops I was wrong, it will swing by us in at a distance of about 19,000 miles 2027, then depending on what the 2027 does to its orbit get real friendly in 2039.

[homeschoolmom]

I thought the earth was going to fall into a black hole in 2037...

[ardillacid]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' post='1095136' date='Oct 18 2006, 05:02 PM']
actually they can predict quite well.
[/quote]
No they can't

[homeschoolmom]

I knew you were going to say that.

[ardillacid]

Why don't we just ask Homeschoolmom, she apparetntly can see into the future.

Edited October 18, 2006 by notardillacid

[homeschoolmom]

I'm not telling.

[ardillacid]

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2829075%29_1950_DA"]From Here:[/url]

[quote](29075) 1950 DA is the near Earth object with the highest known possible probability of impacting Earth, according to the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale.
......
A preliminary analysis shows two possible pole directions (Giorgini, et al., 2002 "Asteroid 1950 DA's 2880 Encounter with Earth"). One trajectory misses the Earth by tens of millions of kilometers, while the other has an impact probability of 1⁄300. The radar observations are currently being reanalyzed, in combination with the optical lightcurves.[/quote]

So much for that, huh cmotherofpirl, the most likely to hit earth will hit in 2880, and it has 1 in 600 chance of it

Edited October 18, 2006 by notardillacid

[MIKolbe]

From Armageddon-

President: We didn't see this thing coming?

Dan: Well, our object collison budget's about a million dollars. That allows us to track about 3% of the sky, and beg'n your pardon sir, but it's a big-ole sky.

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='notardillacid' post='1095186' date='Oct 18 2006, 06:50 PM']
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2829075%29_1950_DA"]From Here:[/url]
So much for that, huh cmotherofpirl, the most likely to hit earth will hit in 2880, and it has 1 in 600 chance of it
[/quote]
I'll stick with NASA over wikipedia anyday.

[ardillacid]

Thank you for posting some evidence or link as a rebuttal......oh wait

From NASA's mouth itself: [url="http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/doc/sentry_faq.html#1950da"]NASA's WEBSITE[/url]

[quote][b]Why do your first calculations of an orbit often look more threatening than later ones?

Because orbits stemming from very limited observation sets are more uncertain it is more likely that such orbits will "permit" future impacts.[/b] However, such early predictions can often be ruled out as we incorporate more observations and reduce the [b]uncertainties[/b] in the object's orbit. Most often, the threat associated with a specific object will decrease as additional observations become available, and so objects will be posted to, and later removed from, our Impact Risk Page. The Palermo Scale values will typically start out at less negative values when the object's orbit is most uncertain and evolve to more negative values (and eventually off the list) as more and more observations allow the object's orbit to be continually improved.[/quote]

good ol nasa, so the next time you see on the news that an asteroid is going to hit earth in 15 years keep this in mind :

[Norseman82]

According to the "Bible Code" program on the History Channel, some comet or asteroid is supposed to end life on Earth in 2011 or 2012.

The Mayan (or Incan?) calendar ends in 2011 or 2012. According to St. Malachy, there is only one Pope after Benedict XVI.

With the internet, the gospel can be preached just about all over the world at the click of the mouse.

There was something about a red heifer being born in Israel a short time ago, which is supposed to have something to do with the reconstruction of the Jewish temple.

A lot of the Jewish religion can convert in the next 5 or 6 years; look how fast the Soviet Union fell.

And the fact that good Catholic men who obey the rules are having a hard time finding wives to establish families with while the fornicating pagan party-boys are rewarded only makes sense if God is trying to spare us the stress of having to prepare children for the end of the world.

[Church Punk]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' post='1095136' date='Oct 18 2006, 06:02 PM']
actually they can predict quite well.
[/quote]

They cant even get the weather straight, so how much I believe scientist. But actually, we are hit by astroids and space rocks everday, its just that they burn up in the the Earths atmosphere.

[Era Might]

Thank you all for the enlightening meteorological discussion.

[Era Might]

I just saw the weirdest sign that someone pasted to a pole:

"Are you ready for the Rapture on October 28th, 1992?"