The Official Ratz Thread For Asteroid 2012 DA14

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It's the thought we'll all go together that appeals to me. The idea of dying alone is quite sad. If everyone else is doing it besides me I figure there is safety in numbers, or something like that?

You assume that an asteroid hit will kill a 400' tall fire-breathing mutant lizard-thingy?

[Horwood Beer-Master]

If Earth doesn't want to be hit by a dinosaur killer, it should get off its lazy ass and move out of the way.

The dinosaurs are already dead, FUCK YOU space boulder!!!

I put some seed and mealworms out for the Dinosaurs this morning - they seemed lively enough when they came to collect.

[Atheist-Lite]

If it does impact in feb 2013 it'll be a disaster being mostly composed of irony concerning the year before?

[Atheist-Lite]

http://sfbay.ca/2012/03/04/got-an-aster ... g-our-way/

Got an asteroid heading our way


This may be the first time you’re reading the words 2012 DA14, but we’re pretty sure it won’t be the last.

2012 DA14 is the name assigned to a 200-foot wide meteor that Spanish astronomers discovered last month and was confirmed by other astronomers.

NASA’s published data shows that on February 15, 2013, 2012 DA14 will pass very close to Earth — astronomically speaking.

On that potentially fateful day, NASA close approach data is predicting 2012 DA14 will come within 0.000186 astronomical units of planet Earth. One astronomical unit is the mean distance between the Earth and sun.

This works out to just over 17,000 miles separating us from a pretty serious piece of space junk.

How close is that? Well, lunar orbit is about 238,000 miles, so a lot closer than that.

Right around 22,000 miles is geosynchronous orbit used by weather and communication satellites. Of which there are tons.

If anything close to a collision actually occurs, plenty of satellites are high enough the air to be able to look down on the action. In other words, we could watch from above as any drama unfolds.

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More at SFBay: http://sfbay.ca/2012/03/04/got-an-aster ... z1oAG1VpmK

[Rum]

It's the thought we'll all go together that appeals to me. The idea of dying alone is quite sad. If everyone else is doing it besides me I figure there is safety in numbers, or something like that?

Oh you will die alone alright.

[Svartalf]

I don't get this dying together crap... the only way I could get satisfaction from dying along with other people would be if I had engineered their demise so they wouldn't survive me.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I don't get this dying together crap... the only way I could get satisfaction from dying along with other people would be if I had engineered their demise so they wouldn't survive me.

It's the not the dying, it's the waiting for death, doing that alone sucks. Trust me.

[FBM]

I would rather die alone than with other people around.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I would rather die alone than with other people around.

That is the Most Sucky option, IF you have friends around. Strangers, who gives a fuck.

[FBM]

I would rather die alone than with other people around.

That is the Most Sucky option, IF you have friends around. Strangers, who gives a fuck.

I guess I wouldn't want to burden my friends with the experience, even though I'd be willing to stick by friends who were in that position.

Anyway, back to the OP, if the asteroid had to hit a populated area, I'd like to see it hit Pyongyang, NK. It would simplify my invasion plans.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I would rather die alone than with other people around.

That is the Most Sucky option, IF you have friends around. Strangers, who gives a fuck.

I guess I wouldn't want to burden my friends with the experience, even though I'd be willing to stick by friends who were in that position.

I was looking at it from the viewpoint that nobody was going to survive.

Anyway, back to the OP, if the asteroid had to hit a populated area, I'd like to see it hit Pyongyang, NK. It would simplify my invasion plans.

I'll speak to DA14 if you'd like?

[Horwood Beer-Master]

I hope "DA14" isn't it's intended target, because that's (more-or-less) Sidcup - and that's kinda close

[Atheist-Lite]

If it struck a major population centre and fiscal hub like NY or London would that hint at it being aimed, or would you put it down to Sods law?

[Audley Strange]

I hope "DA14" isn't it's intended target, because that's (more-or-less) Sidcup - and that's kinda close

Well apparently around that way there are supposedly some dinosaurs left to make extinct.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

In my view it reflects a small minded, self focused and ego-centric view of life and history. To think that of all the generations this is the one where the end will come, god returns or whatever reflects that.

Well, on the end coming part at least, one generation is going to be right eventually... might as well be Crumple's!