PCTREE
Treehouser
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Should we be worried??
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woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Huge! Why be worried, nothing we could do about something that size striking the earth.
sawinredneck
Treehouser
It's happened before, it'll happen again, it's called "cosmic pinball". As Jay says, nothing we can do about it, I think Bruce Willis is too old to put a nuke on it now.
Grendel
TreeHouser
William R. Forstchen wrote a good book about the after effects of a massive power outage called One Second After. It got some press when the Pentagon and a few congress types mentioned it in session. Basically, if we lost power, most of us would be dead in three weeks.
Raj
TreeHouser
Imagine the insurance claims..... our rates would sky rocket.
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
I wonder what it would feel like for that instant if a rock eight times the size of the earth slammed into us? Must be a hell of a jolt. 
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
You would probably never even know at 8X. Just gone..
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
No use worrying, that's for sure. Comets and asteroids bring life and death all the time.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Look at it this way... we are really damn lucky to have the sun, Jupiter, Saturn and the moon or we would never even have be a blip in the universal scheme of things.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
They are our big brothers watching out for us.
sawinredneck
Treehouser
There's a chance we may get some inclement weather, a better chance it will mess up some of the E-layers that the ham operators use, throwing the signal in different places than normal. But there shouldn't be any overall radiation threats or such from it.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
We just missed a CME that would have set us back to the Dark Ages, about a year ago. Lucky for us, it blew out from another angle, missing planet Earth.
It's just a matter of time.
It's just a matter of time.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Dinosaurs had a long run... we shall see. Or not.
gf beranek
Old Schooler
The birth of the planets was born in violent events of matter accretion and impacts. Ah, and then it slowed down and the Tree House come to be.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Haha, damn straight! 
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
And there you go...
Burnham
Woods walker
Wait...y'all mean we needn't worry about global warming and climate change, or cutting all the oldgrowth down, or extinction of massive numbers of species due to loss of habitat, or wiping out the ocean ecosystems, 'cause a big ass asteroid might change things way more and way faster here on Earth, any time???
Just askin'...
Just askin'...
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
Yep. Party time.
Burnham
Woods walker
Jim, you gave me a fine chuckle, my friend 
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sawinredneck
Treehouser
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Yup!
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
I just received one of those emails asking me if i desired the macho way of life?
I think I sort of do, but after Andy's post, there doesn't seem much point in it....
flushcut
TreeHouser
Wait...y'all mean we needn't worry about global warming and climate change, or cutting all the oldgrowth down, or extinction of massive numbers of species due to loss of habitat, or wiping out the ocean ecosystems, 'cause a big ass asteroid might change things way more and way faster here on Earth, any time???
Just askin'...
Well in that case I am on my way to Sequoia Forest with my 3120 to git me sum! LOL
Personally we have to worry more about a volcanic eruption than we do an cosmic collision, but either way there is nothing we can do about it.
