BREAKING NEWS --- Mars to be hit by massive comet! 40 billion nuke bomb size explosion! CONFIRMED! | |
The Cryptic Mole User ID: 34963257 Canada 02/25/2013 10:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING NEWS --- Mars to be hit by massive comet! 40 billion nuke bomb size explosion! CONFIRMED! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 34941837 Canada 02/25/2013 10:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING NEWS --- Mars to be hit by massive comet! 40 billion nuke bomb size explosion! CONFIRMED! Ask yourself this - why all of a sudden are we being pointed to Martian mega doom in 2014????? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 18713240 Is it because someone wants our attention diverted away from something more imminent here on earth? Even Astro is pushing this Mars 2014 hit. Why?? Because something is coming here very soon, as in 2013 - gotta divert our attention and keep us from panicking. They don't realize we are big boys and can handle the truth I don't think this is a rational response to Dr. Astro's post; he essentially has given us all the heads up on what could be the most important celestial event in human history and you're really the first of the Earth's 6 billion people to be aware of it. An impact of this size on our neighbor planet will have huge scientific, socio-political, emotional, and migratory (if the impact stirs up an atmosphere et al.) implications for humanity. These potentials are are far more real and important than ones unsupported fear of misdirection. |
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Dr. Ho Doan (OP) User ID: 34464973 United States 02/25/2013 10:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING NEWS --- Mars to be hit by massive comet! 40 billion nuke bomb size explosion! CONFIRMED! 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. Quoting: Dr. Ho Doan 34464973 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. [link to english.pravda.ru] 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. when is suppose to go down? Oct 19, 2014 |
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UNkLE |3UCK User ID: 32752361 United States 02/25/2013 10:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING NEWS --- Mars to be hit by massive comet! 40 billion nuke bomb size explosion! CONFIRMED! NASA is gonna be pissed that billions of $$$ is going to be vapourised within seconds. Would make for a hell of a show though, and a good indicator of what effect an object that size would have on hitting Earth (assuming it hits Mars). Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34327655 Just the thing that may make Mars habitable when the dust settles. Melt those ice caps. Bring out that frozen underground water. Yeah, Baby, YEAH! Actually it would more likely send up enough dust and gas to blanket the entire planet and block out sunlight which would cause a deep freeze for several yrs... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 35179160 United States 02/25/2013 10:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING NEWS --- Mars to be hit by massive comet! 40 billion nuke bomb size explosion! CONFIRMED! You guys realize how improbable this is.... right, so now if one also comes for earth, there is literally no place that humans could hide..... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34027613 Makes you wonder.... It is COMPLETELY probable. That it happened 65 million years ago and tens of thousands of times before that and yet has abated/not happened bigtime in the last 65 million years IS improbable. The universe becomes less exciting and more predictable with each passing year, but there are still 100's of millions of long period comets and potential comets out there, any one of which could be THE ONE. |
Why User ID: 7759106 United States 02/25/2013 10:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING NEWS --- Mars to be hit by massive comet! 40 billion nuke bomb size explosion! CONFIRMED! NASA is gonna be pissed that billions of $$$ is going to be vapourised within seconds. Would make for a hell of a show though, and a good indicator of what effect an object that size would have on hitting Earth (assuming it hits Mars). Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34327655 Why do you think they put them there? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 34884778 United States 02/25/2013 10:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING NEWS --- Mars to be hit by massive comet! 40 billion nuke bomb size explosion! CONFIRMED! 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. Quoting: Dr. Ho Doan 34464973 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. [link to english.pravda.ru] 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. gee..guess curosity is toast.. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 35179160 United States 02/25/2013 11:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING NEWS --- Mars to be hit by massive comet! 40 billion nuke bomb size explosion! CONFIRMED! NASA is gonna be pissed that billions of $$$ is going to be vapourised within seconds. Would make for a hell of a show though, and a good indicator of what effect an object that size would have on hitting Earth (assuming it hits Mars). Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34327655 Just the thing that may make Mars habitable when the dust settles. Melt those ice caps. Bring out that frozen underground water. Yeah, Baby, YEAH! Actually it would more likely send up enough dust and gas to blanket the entire planet and block out sunlight which would cause a deep freeze for several yrs... A strike would produce gobs of heat, converting solid carbon dioxide in the ground to gas. CO2 is not a primary greenhouse gas, but it could raise the temps on Mars. Average temp now on Mars is -67 degree F. How much could an impact producing gobs of heat and a carbon dioxide atmosphere raise the temps to? Who knows? Depends on the size of the impactor, its speed and its angle of impact. |
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Dr Ho Doan (OP) User ID: 34464973 United States 02/25/2013 11:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING NEWS --- Mars to be hit by massive comet! 40 billion nuke bomb size explosion! CONFIRMED! thats 1.3 billion times more powerful than this: Quoting: Dr. Ho Doan 34464973 [link to www.youtube.com] [link to www.youtube.com] [link to s3.vidimg02.popscreen.com] [link to s4.hubimg.com] [link to keioglobalchallenges.files.wordpress.com] /\ If every single man, woman, and child in the US had 4 of those... and then all brought them all together in Oklahoma, and set them all off at once .... thats how powerful this collision will be. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 35179160 United States 02/25/2013 11:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING NEWS --- Mars to be hit by massive comet! 40 billion nuke bomb size explosion! CONFIRMED! I'm going to go out on a limb an call Quoting: Anonymous Coward 18012248 The odds are in my favor because 9 out of 10 of the people on here report BS. You are too kind. Actually 10 out of 10 predictions on GLP are BS. But nobody thought a comet would strike Jupiter in my lifetime and nobody predicted it, but it was discovered and tracked and it DID hit Jupiter. See Shoemaker Levy Comet that hit Jupiter. |
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Dr. Ho Doan (OP) User ID: 34464973 United States 02/25/2013 11:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING NEWS --- Mars to be hit by massive comet! 40 billion nuke bomb size explosion! CONFIRMED! Un-pin just because it's not confirmed what so ever! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 35122910 There is a chance of it yes but confirmed by Pravda haha you are kidding Pravda and GLP. Discovery News article: [link to news.discovery.com] It will be on the major news networks in the next week or so. They are waiting for more specifics. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 35179160 United States 02/25/2013 11:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING NEWS --- Mars to be hit by massive comet! 40 billion nuke bomb size explosion! CONFIRMED! Question. Will this occur with Mars minimum distance from Earth or maximum, or somewhere in between. How far will Mars be from Earth at time of potential impact? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27646967 Now THAT my friend IS a good question. Dr.AstroMutt paging our own DrAstroMutt, I realize you did not say it WOULD strike Mars, but if it were to strike Mars would Mars be closest or farthest from Earth or can that be determined this far out? |