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Looks like the odds of this is zero!
I heard a 4000ft trench over there is now only 100 ft deep. Is that true?
What came before the Big Bang?
Lets put our Mars rovers up there and blow there minds away. All they needed was an old WW2 strobe light. Lock the thread for what? Freedom of speech? Huygens should be called Hoggins. Since they be hoggin the photos.I agree with him I want my tax money back on this.
Exactly, I used to get instant polaroid pictures better than that. We waited 20 years for this? Man who do they think they are kidding. The old and decrepid Terraserver gives better resolution than this crud.
"Richard Hoagland, where are you when we need you!"
He! He! Funny! Thats a good one. Funny they show one of the last pictures first and one of the first pictures last. This means they are sliding us. I agree with you. BOOOOOOOO!
Btw? Why did they change the title of the story? I bet someone got in trouble!
Good point the odds of that ever happening again are zero! So lets still save the money again it won't happen again for another 40,000 years.
Wow,
The pictures are sure coming in slow. What gives with ESA?Errorist would not do that he would show them immediatly as soon as they came in. Are they holding back something?
But we don't have any such program.
Better check your facts!
"The chances of this happening are so low that no rational, sentient being could possibly take them seriously. "
This does not = zero chances. You said zero before, now you change your mind! Why the change?
Correct answer.
It is rational to worry about such things. Why do you suppose we have a program to nuke one if we have to?
The odds are it won't happen. I understand. But, if it does happen we are in for a hard time.
As for the hydrogen to feed fuel cells, I would consider cracking H2O using fission.
Why not crack H2O using a laser?
Gee,
I hope not after what what Mr.Don Yeomans said!
"The interesting part of this mission is that we don't really know what to expect," said Don Yeomans, a senior research scientist with the Deep Impact mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). "But no matter what happens, we'll observe the phenomena."
Get your hard hats on boys and girls!
I doesn't matter. We can just wait for the next global extinction to occur and then start over again like Adam and Eve. But if just Adam and Steve survive its curtains.
Not talking about the ice! Just the water!
Of course! We all know it did!! :band:
The polar ice may melt as part of global warming, but that has nothing to do with the depletion of the ozone layer; if anything, the hole in the ozone layer should actually cool the polar regions.
Doesn't make sense. It will let more ionizing radiation in thus warming the Arctic Oceans more. The people in Argentena have been limited to stay out in the sun for one to two hours per day now because of it. Skin Cancer is another by product of such denial.
Once the land based ice melts watch out. Without the ozone at the poles I am sure the arctic oceans will warm up more.
As our ozone is depleated on both the north and south poles. This will happen more. Keep adding chlorine to our atmosphere and it is going to get real bad. As china and India get into the industrial age and start owning as many homes and cars per capita as we do here in the USA then there is no stopping it. Also,scientists do not figure into the problem of burning chemicals in the world which emit tons upon tons of chlorine into the atmosphere. Nor do they care about chlorine!
This is just the start of things.
You will see the results in ten years. The Ross ice shelf will break off in five years and five years later the oceans will rise 6 feet.
Earthquake tsunami in India.
Could a Earthquake of this size have caused a mountain to be thrust up in a different region of the world and cause this accident?
It reminds me of a four way intersection with stop signs. The officials know an accident will happen there. After a fatality occurs then they put up the stop light. Insane if you ask me.
Here are the calculations for an Iron meteor 1/2 mile wide. If you notice it does not slow down very much before impact. It would be a devestating wave of over 1000 feet swamping Miami if it hit 100 miles off shore. The AIRBLAST would blow down tall buildings if it hit 100 miles offshore.
Impact Effects
Robert Marcus, H. Jay Melosh, and Gareth Collins
Your Inputs:
Distance from Impact: 160.00 km = 99.36 miles
Projectile Diameter: 792.48 m = 2599.33 ft = 0.49 miles
Projectile Density: 8000 kg/m3
Impact Velocity: 20.93 km/s = 13.00 miles/s
Impact Angle: 45 degrees
Target Density: 1000 kg/m3
Target Type: Liquid Water of depth 457.20 meters, over typical rock.
Energy:
Energy before atmospheric entry: 4.57 x 1020 Joules = 1.09 x 105 MegaTons TNT
The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth during the last 4 billion years is 8.3 x 105years
Atmospheric Entry:
The projectile begins to breakup at an altitude of 17500 meters = 57400 ft
The projectile reaches the ground in a broken condition. The mass of projectile strikes the surface at velocity 20.8 km/s = 12.9 miles/s
The impact energy is 4.51 x 1020 Joules = 1.08 x 105MegaTons.
The broken projectile fragments strike the ground in an ellipse of dimension 1.22 km by 0.861 km
Major Global Changes:
The Earth is not strongly disturbed by the impact and loses negligible mass.
The impact does not make a noticeable change in the Earth's rotation period or the tilt of its axis.
The impact does not shift the Earth's orbit noticeably.
Crater Dimensions:
What does this mean?
The crater opened in the water has a diameter of 21.3 km = 13.2 miles
For the crater formed in the seafloor:
Crater shape is normal in spite of atmospheric crushing; fragments are not significantly dispersed.
Transient Crater Diameter: 12.3 km = 7.63 miles
Transient Crater Depth: 4.35 km = 2.7 miles
Final Crater Diameter: 17.1 km = 10.6 miles
Final Crater Depth: 0.696 km = 0.432 miles
The crater formed is a complex crater.
The volume of the target melted or vaporized is 2.17 km3 = 0.521 miles3
Roughly half the melt remains in the crater , where its average thickness is 18.3 meters = 60.1 feet
Thermal Radiation:
What does this mean?
Time for maximum radiation: 0.737 seconds after impact
Visible fireball radius: 13.3 km = 8.28 miles
The fireball appears 18.9 times larger than the sun
Thermal Exposure: 7.02 x 105 Joules/m2
Duration of Irradiation: 19.9 seconds
Radiant flux (relative to the sun): 35.2
Seismic Effects:
What does this mean?
The major seismic shaking will arrive at approximately 32 seconds.
Richter Scale Magnitude: 7.9
Mercalli Scale Intensity at a distance of 160 km:
VI. Felt by all, many frightened. Some heavy furniture moved; a few instances of fallen plaster. Damage slight.
VII. Damage negligible in buildings of good design and construction; slight to moderate in well-built ordinary structures; considerable damage in poorly built or badly designed structures; some chimneys broken.
Ejecta:
What does this mean?
The ejecta will arrive approximately 183 seconds after the impact.
Average Ejecta Thickness: 4.97 cm = 1.96 inches
Mean Fragment Diameter: 3.16 cm = 1.24 inches
Air Blast:
What does this mean?
The air blast will arrive at approximately 485 seconds.
Peak Overpressure: 56200 Pa = 0.562 bars = 7.98 psi
Max wind velocity: 109 m/s = 244 mph
Sound Intensity: 95 dB (May cause ear pain)
Damage Description:
Multistory wall-bearing buildings will collapse.
Wood frame buildings will almost completely collapse.
Glass windows will shatter.
Up to 90 percent of trees blown down; remainder stripped of branches and leaves.