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BREAKING NEWS --- Mars to be hit by massive comet! 40 billion nuke bomb size explosion! CONFIRMED!
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 19079034:MV8yMTUxNjkwXzM2MzcwMjE4Xzg0RTkxRkUw] [quote:Dr. Astro:MV8yMTUxNjkwXzM2MzcwMTQ5XzhDREY2NTZB] [quote:Anonymous Coward 19079034:MV8yMTUxNjkwXzM2MzcwMDc4X0QxMzc2QzA4] Great Astro. You could probably garner some temporary Internet fame if you were to figure out the EXACT specifics of where you would have to be and when to see it (of course only if there was a point and it was even visible when it hits Mars). Not only that, if you were to work out a reasonably budget/affordable Telescope/computer program set-up that a lot of us could save and work towards as a personal (little less) Two-year goal. It'd actually inspire me to figure out some awesome new way to make money if I knew I could witness an event like this. 40 BILLION 500 kt NUCLEAR BOMBS???? Yeah I'd definitely like to say I witnessed such a thing up close. That'd be some Youtube Science Porn Money Maker of the year! Thanks, and please consider helping out us retards. [/quote] Actually I was thinking if it turns out this thing really is going to hit Mars, maybe I could beg Trinity to fly my scope and I out to some location it can be seen from so that I can provide live video for GLP. But I like your idea as well, I'll see what I can do with that too. [/quote] That'd be really cool of Trinity to do that for all of us. The traffic on this site would be up the ying yang (not that it isn't already. Well if you did do my idea it'd be much appreciated so I could feel a sense of accomplishment. Of course I'd have the live feed of your telescope next to it as I'd probably screw something up and completely miss with my own and at least would have yours to fall back on! How much was your scope anyways? I'm developing a Smartphone App that's hopefully going to be Facebook/Instagram huge if all goes right, so splurging on a good scope would definitely be one of those justifiable personal desires :P Money can't buy happiness, only stepping stones to happiness. [/quote]
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The core of the comet will be moving 56 kilometers per sec when it smashes into Mars. The explosion it creates will be equal to
40 BILLION 500kt nuclear bombs
(avg US and Russ arsenal weapon) going off at once, or 20 billion megatons of TNT, or 1.33 trillion Hiroshima bombs, or 1.3 billion Castle Bravo explosions. Its enough to kill all life on the planet if any were living there.
Astronomers predict a large-scale disaster on the Red Planet in October 2014, when a comet may ram into Mars, creating a 500-kilometer crater, the website of the Russian observatory ISON-NM said.
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link to english.pravda.ru
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comet core 30 miles across
collision speed 35 miles per second (126,000 miles per hour)
It may make Mars temporarily as bright as the sun. The crater left behind will be 500 kilometers across. A lot of rock will be ejected into space and become stray asteroids. This will be an epic event.
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