Comet Elenin approaching Earth, get your bunkers ready!

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  1. General Magnus

    General Magnus Da Custodes of the Emprah

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    So what´s the background on this one? I thought the comet that was closer to Earth was "apophs" or however it was called.
     
  2. Aernaroth

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    I do. The earth is much SMALLER than the earth, as everyone knows.

    Elenin is getting its closest this september, apophis in 2036, though apophis will get much closer than elenin will. Also apophis is an asteroid, not a comet.
     
  3. grimlock1972

    grimlock1972 Optimus, serving up the primest of ribs since 1984

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    Maximum Overdrive anyone?
     
  4. Gatehawk

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    can we please for the love of god go one day without having some bonehead dumbass make a doomsday prediction or some catastrophic warning?
     
  5. firehawc_69

    firehawc_69 cloppers = ignore list

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    I wonder if we'll see another cult mass suicide like Hale-Bopp.

    [​IMG]

    That dude was creepy.
     
  6. Keith Prime

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    Not another one people are getting info about wrong...

    :lol 

    :lol 

    :lol  You do realize if Ivan Ooze was real, we'd have more to worry about than a comet NOT hitting us?

    Closest it will get to Earth is 21.7 million miles, aka 90 times as far from us as we are from the moon.


    See above or check Eric's full post on page 1 of the thread.

    Recently, we did have something (not sure if it was an asteroid or comet), I think the size of a bus, come between us & the moon ("over" the Atlantic I think it was reported), but there was no chance of it hitting either.

    99942 Apophis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
     
  7. Dark Skull

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    April 2036? Ah well....time to go buy a plot of land.....get a lawnchair and some beer....kick back and watch the show.
     
  8. Eric

    Eric VOTE.

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    :lol  Where are the Power Rangers when you need them? And their craptacular rubber suits that were used in the movie?

    Apparently not. How many times has humanity been wrong before about failed doomsday stuffs? Let me do some Googling.

    -Y2K (And my parents actually went through a lot for this one. Their faces are still red to this day :redface2: )
    -Halley's Comet, 1910
    -The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) would ultimately create a black hole that would destroy the Earth. Nothing happened that day.
    -More recently, the May 21st "rapture".

    Oh humanity, you so funny at being wrong. :lol 
     
  9. Paladin

    Paladin Have Zord, Will Travel

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  10. Keith Prime

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    Gotta be careful about these "World's gonna end" threads. They're liable to be closed or deleted.

    & the Bible says the World isn't going to end... Most people misinterpret what it says... I'd go on, but then this post would probably get deleted.
     
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  12. VaderPrime1

    VaderPrime1 Prepare for termination!

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    Oh my God, your fucking avatar :lolol 

    For some reason all the .gifs I see on my PC are sped up ridiculously fast which only makes them more hilarious :lol 




    But uh, yeah, what everyone else said about this. The world isn't going to end.
     
  14. rattrap007

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    Oh Comet Elenin(e) Oh you know what I mean. In this moment you mean everything...

    sorry read that as Comet Eileen.. Song popped into my head.
     
  15. Tigertrack

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    Another reason for collecting WST's. There's more room in the fall-out shelter than regular Transformers! :D 
     
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    Fuck doomsday, I just wanna see the damn comet.

    BB28
     
  17. MetalRyde

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    when it gets here, i'll [EFF]ing falcon punch it! old style!
     
  18. Aernaroth

    Aernaroth <b><font color=blue>I voted for Super_Megatron and Veteran

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    "Im sure it'll burn up in our atmosphere and what's ever left will be no bigger than a chihuahua's head."
     
  19. Keith Prime

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    It's not even going to be 20 million miles close us, so why even say that?

    & even if it did hit us & comletely burned up in the atmosphere, several tons of atoms, yes likely as vapor, but several, probably thousand, TONS of mass none-the-less, would still hit this planet. & that would have some effect... There'd also be the energy added to our planet...

    But it's all MOOT becase it won't even be close to hitting us!:

     
  20. Dark Skull

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    I'm sure he was paraphrasing someone.....