End of earth and human life?

Question

In 25yrs from now, a asteroid 60 miles wide will hit earth, how many people will survive, or can it be prevented

Answer 1

that's nice, i'll start stocking up on tinned food etc

Answer 2

You made that up.

Firstly, there are asteroids that will pass close to Earth but predictions are that the chances of impact are infitessimally small.

Secondly, you have the size all wrong. There is nothing on the long distance horizon of time that is remotely as large as 60 miles wide.

Nothing that size has hit the Earth during the 3 billion or so years that life has existed. Why should one come by now? The fact is that in all the NEAs (near-earth asteroids) detected so far, none are more that a few kms wide.

Stop making things up and scaring the kids.

Answer 3

I counterpredict. 25 years from now, an asteriod 60 miles wide will not hit the Earth.

1. We aren't able to make such predictions with such accuracy.
2. If we could predict such an event, the earlier we intervene, the better. A very small deflection early (via, say, a few megaton explosion) could be enough to cause the meteor to miss the Earth 25 years from now.

Okay... worst case scenario, it hits. Everyone on the hemisphere it hits will die quickly. So sad. The tsunami takes a while to get around the world, and when it does, millions more will die. So far we're talking about 3 billion casualties within 24 hours. Millions more die later from consequences of the flood.

Then -- over the next two years, crops fail because of the climate change. It's like "nuclear winter" only moreso. We're talking more than 5 billion dead now. Still, maybe a billion people survive. Mayve.

Answer 4

near earth asteroids are being constantly observed and monitored, the chances of earth being hit today or years from now is a chance probability, however a 60 mile wide asteroid will definitely cause a global mass extinction

Answer 5

I don't know about 25 years but the Mayans made a prediction about changes taking place on December 21st, 2012. Search 12-21-2012 and a lot of sites will come up on the subject. One site has a count down clock to that date.. It is http://www.adishakti.org/mayan_end_times_prophecy_12-21-2012.htm

Answer 6

i know that there's gonna be a asteroid thats gonna hit earth but it's not going to happen in 25 years. i heard that it's gonna happen after like 100 thousands of years from now.

Answer 7

60 miles wide .? that is a global killer No life left not even bacteria.
the one that killed the dinosaurs was only 6 miles wide. do the math.
the people who don't die in the thermal flash will die in short order from freezing to death from the nuclear winter that will follow. so either way don't worry.

Answer 8

A one mile asteroid screwed over the dinosaurs. 60 miles would probably fix our clocks.

Answer 9

there is not any such data if what you propose is that an asteroid will hit the Earth. besides the undeniable fact that, if certainly one of those risk exists, i've got heard that we've the technologies to deliver yet another synthetic merchandise, of large mass, so as that gravitational potential differences the direction of the 1st celestial merchandise. nonetheless, a collision between our galaxy and a close-by galaxy (Andromeda) is easily going to ensue yet in million of years.

Answer 10

There is a 1 in 45,000 change of that happening, but the odds of it happening at some point are very high. I would like to believe that we have enough technology on this planet that we could do something to change its course, or leave the planet until after its happened?

Answer 11

"In 25yrs from now, a asteroid 60 miles wide will hit earth..."

Completely made up gibberish.