spikenigma wrote:meh, wake me up when this happens
That's a really nice video simulation there. Always made me wonder what it'd be like if the comet from the Deep Impact poster hit, given it was far more massive than the actual one in film (maybe bigger than the one in Armageddon).
"I have received information psychically, which is corroborated by scientific data, according to which on May 25, 2006 a giant tsunami will occur in the Atlantic Ocean, brought about by the impact of a comet fragment which will provoke the eruption of under-sea volcanoes. Waves up to 200 m high will reach coastlines located above and below the Tropic of Cancer. However, all of the countries bordering the Atlantic will be affected to greater or lesser destructive and deadly levels. This site is dedicated to life, to civic responsibility and to information. There is still time to save lives. Thanks for participating in the world-wide alert!" -- Eric Julien
Wonder what the page will say 24 hours from now.
When I click on the link I'm getting "Service Unavailable"
OH NO its happening right now, LOL
"While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity."
----- #3 on the Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian ( I love this one )
Darth Wong wrote: Hell, the Jehovah's Witnesses predicted Judgment Day way back in the early 20th century, it never happened, and they soldiered on, totally unfazed by this massive failure of their predictive model.
IIRC, they predicted Judgement Day multiple times, and I hear that their explanation for the lack of accuracy is that Judgement Day has happened, just that we haven't perceived it yet.
Thats the advantage when your "model" is "today's warped interpretation of text"
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The object has a diameter greater than that of the main island of Japan - 3000 km. It's moving at 700 km/s if I caught that bit correctly. Initial surface shock wave is estimated at 1 km in diameter. Ejecta would get thrown into high orbit (duh).
The crater: 7 km high at the lip with a diameter of 4000 km. Sorry I couldn't catch more than the impact stats... I can speak it fluently, but my Japanese vocabulary sucks.
Chunks of a comet currently splitting into pieces in the night sky will not strike the Earth next month, nor will it spawn killer tsunamis and mass extinctions, NASA officials said Thursday.
The announcement, NASA hopes, will squash rumors that a fragment of the crumbling Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 (SW 3) will slam into Earth just before Memorial Day.
“There are some Internet stories going around that there’s going to be an impact on May 25,” NASA spokesperson Grey Hautaluoma, told SPACE.com. “We just want to get the facts out.”
Astronomers have been observing 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, a comet that circles the Sun every 5.4 years, for more than 75 years and are confident that any of the icy object’s fragments will remain at least a distant 5.5 million miles (8.8 million kilometers) from Earth – more than 20 times the distance to the Moon – at closest approach between May 12 and May 28.
"We are very well acquainted with the trajectory of Comet 73P Schwassmann-Wachmann 3," said Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office, in a written statement. "There is absolutely no danger to people on the ground or the inhabitants of the International Space Station, as the main body of the object and any pieces from the breakup will pass many millions of miles beyond the Earth."
The main SW 3 fragment, dubbed Fragment C, will make its closest pass by Earth on May 12 at a safe distance of 7.3 million miles (11.7 million kilometers), NASA said, adding that skywatchers will be able to use small telescopes to spot the comet chunks by scanning the constellation Vulpelca during the early-morning hours. [Click here for a map of SW 3’s path across the sky.]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other instruments have been watching SW 3’s disintegration. The comet’s numerous fragments stretch across several degrees of the night sky. For comparison, the Moon’s diameter covers about one-half a degree in the sky.
"Catastrophic breakups may be the ultimate fate of most comets," explained Hal Weaver, a planetary astronomer of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, in a statement.
Weaver led a team of researchers during the Hubble observations of SW 3, and used the space telescope to study the break up of comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 – which was ripped apart by Jupiter’s gravity and hit the giant planet between 1993 and 1994 – Hyakutake in 1996, and 1999 S4 (LINEAR) in 2000, NASA said.
Hubble’s new SW 3 observations suggest that chunks of the comet are pushed behind its tail by the outgassing of Sun-facing pieces. Smaller pieces appear to be ejected from their nucleus faster than their larger brethren, while other fragments seem to simply fade away.
When set alongside studies by other observatories, Hubble’s images may help astronomers determine what is causing the comet’s disintegration as it nears the Earth and Sun, the space agency added.
German astronomers Arnold Schwassmann and Arno Arthur Wachmann first discovered the SW 3 comet in 1930 while hunting for asteroids. Despite its relatively short orbital period, the icy object was not seen again until 1979, and then was missed during a 1985 pass.
Since then, however, astronomers have kept a close eye on SW 3 and in 1995 observed its initial break up.
Aside from a great sky show, the comet poses no danger to Earth and its inhabitants, NASA officials said.
"While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity."
----- #3 on the Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian ( I love this one )
Six minutes left and still nothing. However, the "time window" has now expanded to 48 hours. I wonder if the idiot will continue to increase it after his deadlines are passed without any effects.
spikenigma wrote:meh, wake me up when this happens
I remember seeing that on the Discovery channel about a month ago. It was a pretty cool thing. Japan getting vaporized was pretty badass.
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You assholes! Don't you see that your negative energy thought vibrations is corrupting the value of the test!?
According to informed sources, contacts in the American intelligence services confirm the existence of a time window of 48 hours, centered on May 25th at midnight GMT, for the impact a comet fragment south of the Azores.
So, we should all be dead by midnight on Sunday? Well, damn. That absolutely ruins my weekend plans.
It's not midnight here yet, so I figure we have until the time hits midnight at the international deadline before the world officially didn't end on May 25th.
Darth Wong wrote:Perhaps he will change the domainname from savelivesinmay.com to savelivesinjune.com
Or he can claim that during his intense scientific calculations, he forgot to carry a '1' or made a sign error. So the world will still end in May, but May of next year.
UPDATE MAY 25, 2006:
According to informed sources, contacts in the American intelligence services confirm the existence of a time window of 48 hours, centered on May 25th at midnight GMT, for the impact a comet fragment south of the Azores.
This corroborates information of an evacuation exercise of the U.S. Congress to occur later in the day of May 25th, information which reached us this morning.
As a measure of precaution, I suggest the authorities do the utmost to protect the populations of the Atlantic coastlines.
Time Window...right....
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Reviewing movies is a lot like Paleontology: The Evidence is there...but no one seems to agree upon it.
"God! Are you so bored that you enjoy seeing us humans suffer?! Why can't you let this poor man live happily with his son! What kind of God are you, crushing us like ants?!" - Kyoami, Ran
Darth Wong wrote:That's fucking hilarious. Next we'll hear that the "time window" is a week ... then a month ...
No no no, it'll be that the impact is still going to happen May 25th, 2006, but on the Atlantian calendar. Now as to what that date is on our calendar, that;s still being translated through psychic crystal, transmeditational, stone henge sacrificial goat entrail readings
People that post stuff like those claims on the internet should be arrested for attempting to incite mass panic, wire fraud, and whatever else they could toss at them.
The world is going to end, yeah, RIGHT.
And I'm more powerful then all the fictional superbeings ever concived on earth rolled into one
CorSec wrote:So, we should all be dead by midnight on Sunday? Well, damn. That absolutely ruins my weekend plans.
You didn't actually expect to ENJOY the 3-day weekend, did you?
"everytime a person is born the Earth weighs just a little more."--DMJ on StarTrek.com
"You see now you are using your thinking and that is not a good thing!" DMJay on StarTrek.com
"Watching Sarli argue with Vympel, Stas, Schatten and the others is as bizarre as the idea of the 40-year-old Virgin telling Hugh Hefner that Hef knows nothing about pussy, and that he is the expert."--Elfdart
It's the end of the world as we know it ...
It's the end of the world as we know it ...
It's the end of the world as we know it ...
And I feel fine ...
"It's not evil for God to do it. Or for someone to do it at God's command."- Jonathan Boyd on baby-killing
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You know, the end of the world really isn't so bad. I mean, we get Internet and everyting.
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Flagg wrote:That's such bullshit. Everyone knows the end of the world will take place on December 21, 2012.
Um, is that from another actual doomsday cult or something or are you pulling a date out of the air to make a point?
"everytime a person is born the Earth weighs just a little more."--DMJ on StarTrek.com
"You see now you are using your thinking and that is not a good thing!" DMJay on StarTrek.com
"Watching Sarli argue with Vympel, Stas, Schatten and the others is as bizarre as the idea of the 40-year-old Virgin telling Hugh Hefner that Hef knows nothing about pussy, and that he is the expert."--Elfdart
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