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2009-04-20 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Mike 2009-04-20 10:55|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 damn big asteroid they got there....

Posted by Cheretch Lumplump4731 2009-04-20 12:40|| 2009-04-20 12:40|| Front Page Top

#2 And you can even pick mecca:)

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2009-04-20 14:39|| 2009-04-20 14:39|| Front Page Top

#3 funny. you too?

Posted by Zorba Elmusotle3618 2009-04-20 15:10|| 2009-04-20 15:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Since you guys picked the SA target, I went with San Francisco.

That is a "damn big asteroid".

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-04-20 15:27|| 2009-04-20 15:27|| Front Page Top

#5 I dropped a Little Boy on the UN- my apartment is just outside the outer blast radius. It would prolly still suck though. Can't we get a 2kt 'pocket nuke?'

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2009-04-20 15:34|| 2009-04-20 15:34|| Front Page Top

#6 The "asteroid impact" is the Chixulub impact, an approximately 10km diameter object that is suspected as the killer of the dinosaurs. There are smaller asteroids/meteoroids. I like to play around with the effects of a 250m³ object, either solid nickel-iron, or a very tightly packed methane-water-ice mix. The effects range from about twice the impact of the "Tsar Bomba" 50mt weapon, to up to ten times the impact. Surprisingly, the methane-water-ice mix is more explosive than the nickel-iron, producing a plasma cloud about 25km in diameter.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-04-20 17:23|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-04-20 17:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Come 2029-2036, iff scientific calcs are wrong and APOPHIS strikes the earth [MOON PEOPLE > YEAH, EARTH!], PERTS > ITS THE PACIFIC = NORTH ASIA-PACIFIC that will be ground zero.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-04-20 19:47|| 2009-04-20 19:47|| Front Page Top

#8 The asteroid-on-Mecca scenario is definitely excessive, that would take out my friends house on Koh Samui in Thailand, and I hope to go there one day. If Mecca delenda est, the B61 is my boom-of-choice.

Posted by Grunter 2009-04-20 20:32|| 2009-04-20 20:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Free radical comment #5. Ask and it shall be given. Here is calculator for your 2 KT unit. Would you want it delivered by air or by car? It's your choice.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-04-20 21:32|| 2009-04-20 21:32|| Front Page Top

#10 The Paks better hope they get hit by a bomb - an asteroid would wipe out them and all their neighbors - and half of Africa.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-04-20 22:33|| 2009-04-20 22:33|| Front Page Top

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