NASA discovers Asteroid

Read about it here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_MN4

Well, I checked it today, and it updated saying it most likely won't hit in 2029, but maybe in the 2050s.

Did any of you hear about the asteroid when it was higher on the Torino scale? Were any of you worried?

If you thought the earthquake was huge, this asteroid would have been much bigger. But I don't think we needed to get out Holy and Lifestream if it was going to hit us (FFVII).

I was personally rooting for the asteroid to hit the planet, b/c it would be cool to see that. But I wouldn't want too many people to die. I would have liked to have been watching the news to see what NASA would do to handle it.

Didn't they say an asteroid would hit after Armageddon came out? You know what this means....

Armageddon is making a sequal!

Nah, but seriously, I'm not worried.

Im not worried now. Maybe in like forty years, Id be married (hopefully) and have kids. And Id be old, probably wishing I would die. So what is there to be worried about? :rolleyes2

I doubt this big time. Last thing I read about where something was going to hit the earth was later claimed false a day later. It turns out that the comet would miss us by a mear light year....A WHOLE LIGHT YEAR. NASA just needs money so they do stuff like this to help increase funds...or thats what it most likely is.

Man, the risk keeps getting lower and lower.

Well, it's still not zero, so they should still keep an eye on it and be ready to do something if it goes up again, or somehow manages to hit us. People do win the lottery.

If it happens, it happens. There isnt a thing we can do if it does. So I'm not worried. Besides, we get a "OMFG GIANT ASTEROID" scare every few years or so, and nothing ever comes of it.

The Earth being destroyed wouldn't help matters because the universe would still exist.

No, it's not as bad as the dinosaurs, they were saying, but it would take a big chunk of the Planet. We wouldn't go extinct; in fact it's small enough we could probably be able to destroy the asteroid or something.

I've always believed in the power of the human mind. I figure that in forty years or so we'll have destroyed it if it is really that big of a problem.

live for today, because there wont be any tomorrow.

i dunno, i would think that if i were scared, i would think that anti astroid defense crap would be available

im not too terribley scared; when i do, billions of people will also. Thats when ill get scared

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Originally Posted by Temple Knight

I've always believed in the power of the human mind. I figure that in forty years or so we'll have destroyed it if it is really that big of a problem.

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I agree entirely.

i don't believe in asteroids.

If they could get it to miss earth by a few hundred miles that would make one hell of a wave. *gets a surfboard*

prehaps not the best moment in time to mention waves maxico. :greenie:

I never understood why people worry about this kind of stuff. If it happens, it happens. Theres nothing you can do to stop it so why obssess over it?

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Originally Posted by Temple Knight

I've always believed in the power of the human mind. I figure that in forty years or so we'll have destroyed it if it is really that big of a problem.

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With what? Our rocks and sticks?

Ohh, you didn't get the memo about WW3 :(

Think about it,

50 years ago, man hadn't even dremt of landing on the moon, we didn't have technology that could fly us the speed of light, didn't have colour TV's, The Internet wasn't aroung for another 35 years...I could go on and on

In 50 years from now, if we need to do something about an asteroid, I'm sure we would be able to.

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Originally Posted by tomamar04

we didn't have technology that could fly us the speed of light

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still don't. hear they're workin' on a banana peel powered engine for this tho.

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I've always believed in the power of the human mind. I figure that in forty years or so we'll have destroyed it if it is really that big of a problem.

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i figure that in 40 years or so we'll have destroyed ourselves

I recall hearing that the sum of human knowledge doubles every eight years or so, so I imagine it really isn't that big of a threat. We could probably take it out now if we really HAD to.

As long as it kills all of us so fast that it's painless, it's fine with me.

Seriously though, I'm not worried about it. I never take these "astroid discoveries" seriously.

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Originally Posted by DMKA

As long as it kills all of us so fast that it's painless, it's fine with me.

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Pfft, we wish.

I first read "NASA" as "Nascar", which made me laugh cuz racing people are the last people I'd think would discover a life-ending asteroid. Anyway, I think in 50 years, we'll find some way to make metal oil, so then we'll take the asteroid, turn it into oil, secretly put the oil into an unsuspecting country, then wage war on that country for said oil.

The article says that the impact's going to be like an Atomic bomb. The upside of this grim news is that the damage won't be entirely global. So no Day after Tommorow plot coming into effect here.

Well whatever the case if it'll hit or not, one thing's for sure. I'm not going to be in Europe around that time.

*points to the part of the article that mentions about it hitting only the Eastern Hemisphere*

Ah well, looks like I'll just sit on my lawnchair in sunny California.

Yet another doomsday asteroid is coming for us.Hey I remember last year when one barely missed us and NASA has always said some crazy stuff like an asteroid will hit in 2013 or so.Its always a diffferent date for some reason.Well they got a little bit over half a century to think of something and in my humble opinion of no one can think of anything then we kinda deserve it.

The problem with saying we could blow an asteroid up before it's too late is seeing it in time. In all likehood, we won't see the one that nails us until it enters the atmosphere... about one second before it hits. There are a lot of rocks out there, and near-misses are much more common than you think.

What happened? Suddenly, after this thread being dead for a month, it wakes up again. Did the article update or something? Last I checked, the odds of it hitting was like less than 1%, I think. Did it go up? *checks article*

EDIT: No. It hasn't updated since January 3rd. Nasa hasn't been checking it since earlier, according to their page. They're hoping it's not a flunctuation that it got a 0 on the so-called Torino scale.

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Originally Posted by 2004mn4.info

December 27th, 2004
A new update all but removes any potential risk. Current Torino rating is 0!

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Whoops, I thought I was clever to quote a website like that, but I forgot it says 'posted by.' That's a website, not a poster in this thread.

geez by the time it hits it will be alot smaller and it wont cause much damage where the hell is my holy materia lol but summon WEAPON man this is freaky.

NASA would most likely have better technology then and will be able to kill it off.

Well, if an asteroid's Torino scale can go from a 0 back to a 1, then NASA better keep an eye on it. There are a lot of rocks up there, so I hope they have a department that observes them and makes these sorts of calculations.

Hopefully, packing the Shinra #26 with Huge Materia and auto-piloting it into the asteroid will do the trick. I think that's something like what NASA would do. Uh oh, I hope they play FFVII, or else they won't think of anything! "Hmm, does anybody at this table know if materia exists, or what we could use instead?" We're doomed! No, I'm just kidding. NASA is smarter than that.

well errrr the closest thing would be water magma wind and toxic its complicated as we cannot compress electricity

Are you trying to figure out a weapon to use? I was thinking of maybe putting nukes in the rocket core instead. Of course, if terrorists take the nukes out to use it in their fight, we might have a bit of a problem.

If it did hit it would wipe everything out and let evolution start over giving the poor planet a much needed break. Seriously, this sounds like tabloid fodder. A GIANT ROCK MAY GET WITHIN A LIGHT YEAR OF US, REPENT! We're more likely to kill each other by then.

This sounds also like some drama ridden Armagedden rip-off
"To save the Earth one of us must stay behind to set off the bomb".
*awkward silence* "I'll do it"! "NO JACK, I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU"!
"Rose, I love you". KABBBOOOOM! "JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK"! *close up of tears floating in zero gravity*.
hmm... Anyone know how to copyright a screenplay?

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Originally Posted by Weimar Pluto Knight VII

But I don't think we needed to get out Holy and Lifestream if it was going to hit us (FFVII).

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OLOLOL JOEkkekekekekek.

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I was personally rooting for the asteroid to hit the planet, b/c it would be cool to see that. But I wouldn't want too many people to die. I would have liked to have been watching the news to see what NASA would do to handle it.

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Yeah 2 milliards dead, but wait! Unhuman people can watch others in agony!

Wait a FF7 quote:

"Messa FAT N STOOPID":Barret LAFF NOW.

I heard that people with sick fantasies might try to hit the asteroid off course with a nuclear bomb so it would hit us. I hope you dont grow up into such a person, Weimar.

Oh, that'd be lovely. Nah, but seriously, the united states alone, at this moment, has enough nuclear explosives to destroy this world. I'm not talking 'kill everything'. I'm talking "Blast the atmosphere into space, boil every ounce of water on the planet, and turn the surface into a purely liquid state." type damage. Of course, the part where it knocks us out of orbit and sends us spiraling into the nearest super-gravity would suck, too. (either sun or jupiter- whichever we're knocked in the direction of).
We could take anything the smaller than our moon ;)

Doors, I don't have a sick fantasy. The Meteorite will do what it will, but I want life to be more interesting. I wouldn't want senseless tragedy, but humans being able to face the problem and destroy the asteroid.

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Originally Posted by Weimar Pluto Knight VII

Doors, I don't have a sick fantasy. The Meteorite will do what it will, but I want life to be more interesting. I wouldn't want senseless tragedy, but humans being able to face the problem and destroy the asteroid.

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"I like murdering people and eating their guts but I dont have a sick fantasy"

whatever, doors. You want to see stuff that isn't there? Okay, then.

If it did take a chunck out of the planet (as stated earlier) then you would have plenty to worry about. The sudden change in mass would cause the Earth to shift from its rotational axis an possibly its obital path around the sun and completely change the climate. I love things like this. I'm really excited about it hitting the Earth.

i dont want that to happen. i just wanted it on course with earth so that we'd have to do something about it.

Why would you ever wish something like that? That's like wishing someone would hold a knife to your mother's throat.

Okay, I see your logic. I shouldn't hope that.

I wasn't wishing for it to happen, though! I only wish for good things.

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Originally Posted by Weimar Pluto Knight VII

i dont want that to happen. i just wanted it on course with earth so that we'd have to do something about it.

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yeah and when it comes and it says its bound for oklahoma i will curse you then be in Alaska within 6 hours :P.It kinda sucks that evolutioon has to start all over if it hits us.Anyway by then we should've left our cradle earth.I mean we know how to create artificial gravity WhyTF doesn't Nasa do it.Man I'll make a company that'll build the first space station with artificial gravity.

Okay, it's been a while, but as I recall, this asteroid wasn't going to be that bad. If it would hit, the impact would be more than an atomic bomb, but I don't remember hearing that this one would cause human extinction.

I'm not so worried... It could be much worse. It could hit Ohio, then I'd be pissed. But since I won't, I'm not worried.

But seriously, getting freaked out about this is pointless... Nasa has been wrong A LOT! It was sorta like when they confirmed that Nibiru existed and then all that hype about armageddon was goin to happen. In 20 years, we'll have recreated a miniture deathstar - capable of blowing up large cities or asteroids.

Yeah, I wouldn't want it to hit Ohio, either. Ohio is fine the way it is, b/c it's a red state!

I was going to say a joke about it hitting where NASA is so they'd REALLY want to fulfill one of their mission statements, but then I read that the hq is in dc. Especially if a Republican is in office, I definitely wouldn't want the asteroid anywhere near there! Then I read that NASA has a lot of field installations, only one is in Houston (we have a problem!).

Did you know that NASA doesn't even have a real administrator right now? Ugh, I hope that's the only bad thing about NASA right now.

Edit by cl_out: Not appropriate, especially in this particular subforum. Keep it somewhere private if you have to. Applies to you too, Weimer, with regards to what provoked this response.

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Originally Posted by hawkey3

live for today, because there wont be any tomorrow.

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"Sha na nana nana, live for today..."
- The Grassroots, "Let's Live For Today"

I would think that by 2029 we would have figured out anything we could do to destroy such an object. However, since it seems it won't actually hit, I plan to be watching :)