The end of life on earth next September. Are you ready?

Asmooh

I need to get my spaceship! its buried somewhere in the ocean.. won't say where

TheLastMohican

A valid point brought up at the post-Creamery tinctures this morning by Seaneen 'The Puca' O'Donovan:

Instead of the earth being hit by an asteroid/comet/whatever, it was the other way around and the earth struck one of them - what would the scenario be?
This brought a burst of fierce applause and fresh pints of Murphy's all round.

Tzardine

TheLastMohican wrote: »

A valid point brought up at the post-Creamery tinctures this morning by Seaneen 'The Puca' O'Donovan:

Instead of the earth being hit by an asteroid/comet/whatever, it was the other way around and the earth struck one of them - what would the scenario be?
This brought a burst of fierce applause and fresh pints of Murphy's all round.

Which would you prefer. You hitting a wall at 100mph or a wall hitting you at 100mph.

JCX BXC

World ending? Could this by any chance translate into cheaper flight fares after September?

FishOnABike

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Misleading title is misleading.

Next September implies September 2016. September 2015 is this September.

I thought we had 12 months more than we really do,:eek::eek::pac:

Careful now or we'll be restarting the whole 'this weekend, next weekend' / 'this bus, next bus' debate.

Niemoj

The Westboro Baptist hate group very politely informed people about this on Twitter.

I'm petrified so I am....

....Fúckin' petrified.

bradlente

That Brian Cox story sounds similar to a discussion he had with Joe Rogan,except the part about an asteroid in September.I think the one he said could possibly hit was sometime in the next decade or the one after.

Captain Chaos

There is nothing currently tracked that has a chance of hitting us for the next 100+ years or more, well a big one that will cause significant damage anyway, small ones hit us every day. We will have a close approach in April 2029 and the same one again in 2036.

It's the ones we can't see or don't know about that we should be worried. The one that exploded over Russia a few years ago we could not see coming as it came from the direction of the sun. The only way we could have seen that was if we had scopes at points L4 and 5 in our orbit.

TheLastMohican

Possibly jumped the gun somewhat. Phew! This is a more relaxing read: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33209548

Samaris

I think we're missing a real opportunity here by not spreading the word.

Come August, we can launch a rocket carrying the Chosen Ones to bear the last words of humanity out amongst the stars. I reckon..ooh, the Westboro Baptist Church, the leaders of Scientology and Jenny McCarthy. We can then await the comet, knowing that the best and brightest of us have left the dying planet forever.

It's a hard sacrifice, but it's for the betterment of mankind.

TheLastMohican

Samaris wrote: »

I think we're missing a real opportunity here by not spreading the word.

Come August, we can launch a rocket carrying the Chosen Ones to bear the last words of humanity out amongst the stars. I reckon..ooh, the Westboro Baptist Church, the leaders of Scientology and Jenny McCarthy. We can then await the comet, knowing that the best and brightest of us have left the dying planet forever.

It's a hard sacrifice, but it's for the betterment of mankind.

Can we also include Eamon Dunphy, Pippa Middleton, Twink and Brendan O Carroll?

JCX BXC

Also if Brian Cowen manages to it, it wouldn't be the end of the world...