giant asteroid on its way to earth,
its 2500 miles in diameter,
and is expected to impact at 3.30pm next thursday.
is expected to wipe out all living things on the planet.
what we gonna do?
2007-07-03 00:31:36 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
throw chuck norris at it and hell fight it ^-^
2007-07-03 00:33:10 · answer #1 · answered by chris_ittner13 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋
This EXACT SAME question has already been asked by Rumplestiltskin. It is EXACTLY the same, word for word. Did you copy it or are you really Rumplestiltskin and have assumed a new identity?
My answer, which I will copy from that other question, is:
There is nothing we could do. Lucky for us that the largest asteroid in the solar system is only about 600 miles in diameter. And even luckier is that the largest asteroid in an Earth crossing orbit is only about 10 miles wide. So there is zero chance any asteroid larger than 10 miles will ever hit Earth. If we were tracking a 10 mile wide asteroid and had 20 years warning, there is a chance we could deflect it. But there is no way we could do anything about an asteroid with only a few days warning, no matter how small it is. And there is no way we could deflect a 2,500 mile asteroid (if one existed), no matter how much warning we had.
2007-07-03 09:11:29 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What are we going to do? Ignore it. The news report is obviously untrue.
That's old news, anyway. The same question has been asked already. Alleging Sky News had made the same report 6 days ago. How many news programmes do you know that repeat six-day-old news they have themselves previously broadcast as if it were now hot off the press? Viewers would have a distinct sense of deja vu, I suggest and not view the programme again!
Quite why anyone should want to scare people like this (once, let alone twice!) eludes me. There are some very gullible people who read these pages who might actually believe it.
Did you know that when the BBC made a radio broadcast of a play based on H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" in the 1930s several people committed suicide because they believed Martians were invading earth? Was that responsible broadcasting, would you say?
Let's get this clear: There are no asteroids of 2,500 miles in diameter. Ceres, the largest, is about 975 kilometres, about 600 miles in diameter. About a quarter of the diameter you claim the new one has, or one sixty-fourth of the volume of this new one.
So does your new asteroid have a name? An orbit and a current position in that orbit? Who discovered it and when? And why has NASA not given it an impact assessment as regards how potentially hazardous it might be?
And how come nobody has ever heard of it until today? Didn't you wonder about any of that? Didn't you feel you needed proof? Not even a photograph?
When it isn't headline news in every newspaper tomorrow morning, how much credibility will this report have then?
2007-07-03 07:43:29 · answer #3 · answered by brucebirchall 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
There IS a giant asteroid on its way to Earth right now, but if it expected to impact at 3:30 PM next Thursday, it must be impacting on some other heavenly body, not Earth, so I guess we should watch the fireworks.
2007-07-03 07:42:10 · answer #4 · answered by SteveA8 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Firstly, where did you hear this news????
Secondly, Do nothing, I don't think your news is true.
Third, You should visit a doctor.
fourth, If an asteroid were to impact us, the US and Israel have enough nukes to obliterate that and every other asteroid in the solar system.
2007-07-03 08:13:41 · answer #5 · answered by KA 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Overdosing on "YouTube" again?
Rupert Murdock is laughing all the way to the bank because of the general outbreak of public gullibility.
I don't know what you've been smoking, but you've got to put away your crack-pipe. It's making you spew bullspit and look stupid.
2007-07-03 09:11:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Come on Feronat ur an alien if u die what about universes u captured . anyway i wanna get rid of this idiotic planet . If ur powers return back take me along with u in space!
2007-07-03 10:40:44 · answer #7 · answered by *purple world* 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it is true cause if it is, everyone would be freaking out right now. And no one seem to notice anything about it so the news is obviously fake!
2007-07-03 17:39:11 · answer #8 · answered by Hoa Mộc Lan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Said ur an alien ,use ur powers and save the earth if u really wanna.
2007-07-03 10:39:57 · answer #9 · answered by Girl12334 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cut down my neighbours Tree that's been Pissing me Off for Years !!!!!
2007-07-03 07:40:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
AAAAAAHHHHHHHH, run for the hills, hijack the Space Shuttle, get MacGyver with his pocket knife and duct tape, he will save us all.
2007-07-03 10:34:12 · answer #11 · answered by suzi q 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋