Huge asteroid headed for close encounter with Earth

[mistermack]

I want to know more about the bollocks.
Presumably they're frozen solid like rocks anyway. Like schneibster, I think I need to know the velocity of the bollocks, and also whether the sperm inside them is in proportion to the size of the bollocks.
A sperm that size could do you some real damage.

[mistermack]

The size of the planet affects your chances of being hit, but not the number of people on it. It's not being guided, "Go hit somebody on Earth", you know. So we're not looking at a pool of 7,000,000,000 potential victims and figuring your odds of being the one chosen. We're rather looking at a football field, and you are standing on one square meter of it when a bowling ball gets dropped out of a blimp. What are the odds that the square you're standing on will be hit by the bowling ball?

Are we talking asteroids, or bollocks here?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The size of the planet affects your chances of being hit, but not the number of people on it. It's not being guided, "Go hit somebody on Earth", you know. So we're not looking at a pool of 7,000,000,000 potential victims and figuring your odds of being the one chosen. We're rather looking at a football field, and you are standing on one square meter of it when a bowling ball gets dropped out of a blimp. What are the odds that the square you're standing on will be hit by the bowling ball?

Are we talking asteroids, or bollocks here?

I'm wondering if you disagree with that?

[devogue]

The bollocks have a mass 4.4 smegtillion times that of ordinary man eggs, but the spunk therein is exactly the same size as our own tadpoles. Upon entering the earth's atmosphere the spunkeroid uses instinct to pick out a particularly smelly, fishy, gloopy and tubular place to land. Like Scarborough. Upon impact the whole world would find itself drenched in a sea of electric spaghetti one mile higher than mount everest and the only survivors would be a yacht load of gay porn stars and Essex girls who have evolved spunk gills and who were able to reach said yacht. This is the word of the lord.

[Schneibster]

The special effects in that movie were the worst ever. I mean ever. It was ludicrous. As bad as the guys in gorilla suits and deep-sea-divers' helmets with TV rabbit ears on the back in Radar Men From the Moon.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The special effects in that movie were the worst ever. I mean ever. It was ludicrous. As bad as the guys in gorilla suits and deep-sea-divers' helmets with TV rabbit ears on the back in Radar Men From the Moon.

Actually, that was a movie before it was a serial, IIRC. The company didn't have the money to rent a "real" spacesuit, but one guy had a gorilla suit and another had a toy space helmet. And thus a legend was born.

[mistermack]

The size of the planet affects your chances of being hit, but not the number of people on it. It's not being guided, "Go hit somebody on Earth", you know. So we're not looking at a pool of 7,000,000,000 potential victims and figuring your odds of being the one chosen. We're rather looking at a football field, and you are standing on one square meter of it when a bowling ball gets dropped out of a blimp. What are the odds that the square you're standing on will be hit by the bowling ball?

Are we talking asteroids, or bollocks here?

I'm wondering if you disagree with that?

Well, I agree with Hackenslash that nearly all humans would die in that kind of event.
Most immediately and most of the rest soon after. If anyone survived, it would be a very small number, probably some of the governments have actually prepared something that humans could survive for years in, in case of this, or nuclear war.

I know what sort of point Hackenslash meant, it was mentioned on QI here a while ago.
It's just that it doesn't affect your OWN chances of being killed in an impact event.
Just the chances of a random human, taken from any era.
But that assumes an awful lot, like that there WILL be a strike before humans go extinct, or before the human population falls to a sensible level.
And both of those things are likely to happen LONG before any catastrophic impact.
.

[Calilasseia]

Er, wasn't the gorilla suit and diving helmet combination seen in Robot Monster, routinely listed as one of the worst movies ever made?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Er, wasn't the gorilla suit and diving helmet combination seen in Robot Monster, routinely listed as one of the worst movies ever made?

Yep, and thanks for the name. I was struggling to remember that monster, and the creature in it.

[laklak]

[Schneibster]

Entirely possible, but apparently not unique.

[mistermack]

Er, wasn't the gorilla suit and diving helmet combination seen in Robot Monster, routinely listed as one of the worst movies ever made?

Twenty-five-year-old writer/director Phil Tucker made Robot Monster in four days for an estimated $16,000.

Despite rumors to the contrary, the film did receive some decent reviews and grossed $1,000,000 in its initial release, more than sixty times its original investment.

Job done I think. There's money in shit. Always has been.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

John Waters, for instance.