Asteroid Impact in HD

[OwnedByFerrets]

I couldn't find a post on this. This is one AMAZING depiction of the aftermath of an asteroid impact. And the music accompanying it is marvelous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvCUmeoHpw&eurl=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/27/watch-if-an-asteroid-hit_n_153724.html

Make sure you click on "watch in HD" and full screen to get the full effect.

[SidDithers]

1. Fantastic...

thanks for posting. :applause:

Sid

[Connie_Corleone]

2. Yeah, I saw that on TV. Looks spectacular.

I just hope that doesn't happen anytime soon. I'm not in the mood to be burned off the face of the Earth.

[Warpy]

6. Close to the event, you'd be vaporized

A little farther away, the shock wave would hit before you knew anything untoward had happened and you'd be gone before you knew anything.

What would really suck would be in the other hemisphere and having burning blobs of molten rock raining down from the stratosphere. If one didn't land on you, you'd be incinerated by the fires or choked by the smoke.

There is simply no way to survive it.

However, the planet will survive it. We're the result of one such impact, the Chicxulub impact that wiped out the large saurians and allowed mammals to become the dominant life form on the continents (well, large life form).

It's happened before and will very likely happen again. Each time, our planet rebuilds its ecosystem, erasing some past mistakes and making new ones.

[rrneck]

11. Remember what George Carlin said

about the way we are wrecking the environment and sealing our doom?

"Maybe the planet needed Styrofoam?"

[Warpy]

12. He also said we were a bunch of fleas clinging to the surface

and he was totally right about that.

As for styrofoam, who knows?

However, I can't believe nature ever needed plutonium.

[shadowknows69]

3. And our government hasn't built the space ark yet

That was wholly depressing thanks.

[Connie_Corleone]

4. Bruce Willis will sacrifice himself to save us.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

5. That looks like a depiction of the *bush administration

in all its glory.

[mckara]

7. AKA "The Bush Legacy"

n/t

[edhopper]

8. Wow

very cool. I missed the part at the end of your post about the HD. Watched it a second time with HD and it was great. The difference was amazing.
Also loved the Floyd!

[The_Commonist]

9. Cool!

Well, hot actually!

[Faygo Kid]

10. How big was that sucker? The one that took out the dinosaurs was estimated at six miles.

This one is much bigger - big enough to be spherical.

[Flubadubya]

16. Yeah, it looked like our moon just fell out of orbit! n/t

[sce56]

13. Uh arrival date 21 December 2012???

[Posteritatis]

15. No. (nt)

[Posteritatis]

14. Obligatory webcomic flashback

http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus37.html

[Delphinus]

17. Well,

THAT was pretty awesome!

I would hate to live through something like that - rather, die through something like that. I don't see how humanity could survive such a massively large asteroid strike. But, it's also not anything I'm going to worry about.

I thought that was Pink Floyd on the music and was happy to see I was right.

[Bichonpups]

18. Thanks for the watch in HD hint! Really makes a difference (nt)

[Greyhound]

19. My tubes are too clogged to watch it now, K&R for l8r viewing. n/t