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Aug 7 2011 06:54pm
Quote (Homura @ Aug 7 2011 06:18pm)
i believe that one is the asteroid apophis that might affect us in 2029 if it passes the keyhole area in 2013


funny i just woke up from a dream about us getting killed by a black hole  :rofl: pretty scary stuff thank you goddamn history channel.

The cumulative probability of Apophis striking Earth is 0.00074%.
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Aug 7 2011 07:39pm
commet Elenin is attarcted to the magnetic pull of my balls of steel
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Aug 7 2011 08:35pm
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whats different about this comet vs all the other ones? and whats the big fuss about it?


Nothing IMO. its just another comet.

We will be able to see it a bit since it will be close enough.
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Aug 8 2011 02:25am
Quote (piddywiffle @ Aug 7 2011 12:44pm)
It's wrought with conspiracy.

Some people think that when it's at a certain alignment with Earth, it causes massive earthquakes.

Some people think Elenin is (for a lack of better words) a destroyer of worlds.


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Aug 8 2011 07:09am
They just say that because everything has mass. So if it pulls on our core more than usually when our core shifts back. it can cause alot of friction which means more Electromagnetic interference and can cause shifting of plates causing earthquakes.
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Aug 8 2011 07:47am
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They just say that because everything has mass. So if it pulls on our core more than usually when our core shifts back. it can cause alot of friction which means more Electromagnetic interference and can cause shifting of plates causing earthquakes.

The gravitational effects of Elenin on Earth will be infinitesimal. There will e no plate shifting or increased electromagnetism caused by Elenin.
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Aug 8 2011 08:09am
Quote (bentherdonethat @ Aug 8 2011 07:47am)
The gravitational effects of Elenin on Earth will be infinitesimal. There will e no plate shifting or increased electromagnetism caused by Elenin.


I didn't mean Elenin parsay. I just meant in general most theories about asteroids and comets passing close to earth have some truth behind them.
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Aug 8 2011 02:33pm
Quote (chickenblood @ Aug 8 2011 10:09am)
I didn't mean Elenin parsay. I just meant in general most theories about asteroids and comets passing close to earth have some truth behind them.

First of all, I think it's a pretty safe assumption that you have absolutely no scientific background whatsoever

Now that that's out of the way, the gravitational force of an object drops off as a function of the distance between them squared, so if something gets twice as far away, it has 1/4 of the gravitational force. Considering that even the biggest asteroids in the solar system are on the order of a few kilometers in diameter, that asteroid would have to come INCREDIBLY close, and I'm talking inside the Earth's atmosphere, in order to have any gravitational effects like you're describing. And the odds of an asteroid entering our atmosphere without hitting the planet are incredibly, INCREDIBLY small. If something big enough to do that enters our atmosphere, the collision with the planet will be far more disastrous than what you're describing.
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Aug 8 2011 07:06pm
Get the game off steam: "Universe Sandbox" then just create a comet the size of elenin at the same distance as its closest approach to earth... Does it do anything?
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Get the game off steam: "Universe Sandbox" then just create a comet the size of elenin at the same distance as its closest approach to earth... Does it do anything?

I wasn't able to find a size for Elenin, but I'll see if I can install and run Universe Sandbox now (if it's free, at least, it won't be worth it if it costs anything)
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