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more about #asteroids Roklimber: Apophis asteroid to scrape off the Earth in April 2029 (video simulation) Closest approach ever of any known object. [www.huffingtonpost.com] #tips... more » twophrasebark: The problem with the BSG storyline was that they said homosapien was already here and they were coincidentally genetically identical. This was kind of... more » Pope John Peeps II: Comets and meteors contain stuff. Life contains stuff. THEREFORE comets caused life. Syllogism.......... FAILURE. #asteroids more » Anekanta - Go Play!: I just knew it! I KNEW I saw aliens at the shopping mall the other day! This also explains my suspicion that I myself am from another planet. #aster... more » matthewabel: I suspect what actually happened was someone from the future travelled back to see what the creation of life was like. Then they sneezed resulting in... more » gorehound: The theory is an interesting one and could very well be the truth. #asteroids more » Necrotoxin: It is called Panspermia #asteroids more » Roklimber: So meteors are the new gods... they create life and they take it away. :) #asteroids more » Klebert L. Hall: People never take the long view. -Kle. more » Daveinva: Gee, I'm really glad all the scientists in the world spend so much time arguing-- with resources-- whether the Earth in 2100 will be one degree warmer... more » Roklimber: Several of the comments point out that nothing will be seriously done until a small one hits us and wipes out a city or two. But, you know, not too l... more » Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.: the much-ignored legacy of the Bush administration are the piles on unfunded mandates thrown out indiscriminately. more » Bill-Lee: If an asteroid is going to wipe us all out, I'd rather not know about it. I'd rather just go out living my life than panicky about something I can't p... more » tetracycloide: "any one of which could strike our planet and cause devastating damaged." the asteroid is literally going to hit us so hard we'll start feeling it las... more » omgwtflolbbqbye: On a semi related tangent, this article reminds me of something cute I read/saw a few hrs ago. (click on the img. to see the whole thing). more » omgwtflolbbqbye: I think the only way people will be willing to pony up significant dough for this project is to wait for an asteroid to smack a city first, wreck some... more » Anekanta - Go Play!: This is one of those things, like the Kyoto agreement, that is international in scope, but that also has little potential of being taken seriously by ... more » CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Its not NASA's fault..its the goverments, and I mean all goverments. Even here in the UK.......our space progam in the UK is such a joke that we love ... more » wanion: Asteroids, isn't that the plot to Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor? more » iCurmudgeon: That description of Asteroids' plot was sheer nonsense and utterly devoid of meaning. DiBonaventura would make a great politician. more » -
#originsoflife
Did Meteors Cause Life On Earth?
Are asteroids responsible for the creation of life on Earth? Recent experiments back up a theory that the basic ingredients for life came from beyond the stars... which makes us all aliens. Battlestar Galactica was right! More » -
#deathfromabove
Potentially Deadly Asteroids Still Go Undetected
Although NASA vigilantly searches the skies, dozens of near-Earth asteroids remain undetected, any one of which could strike our planet and cause devastating damage. But better detection will mean more facilities and better equipment — and a lot more money. More » -
#morningspoilers
New Videos From Gamer, G.I. Joe And Time Traveler's Wife, Plus The Plot Of Asteroids: The Movie!
Spoilers go on forever! The producer of Asteroids explains that movie's plot. Plus there's a new Gamer clip, and a predatory new Jennifer's Body pic. Also: G.I. Joe, G-Force, The Prisoner, Time Traveler's Wife, Green Hornet and 2012 spoilers! More » -
#viewmaster
Already, A Toy-Based Movie Even Weirder Than Asteroids
Never mind the Asteroids movie... there just may be a movie being worked on that comes from an even less likely toy origin. Are they really making a movie based on Viewmaster? More » -
#developmentdeal
Movie Based On Asteroids Game Will Boggle Your Mind
Though Hollywood excels in making plotless movies, the sale of Asteroids to Universal breaks new ground. The people who are bringing you GI Joe this month are about to make a movie about a triangle shooting a bunch of blobs. More » -
#splashdowndisaster
Asteroid Splashdown Won't Kill Us... Immediately
The good news? You can stop worrying about killer waves from asteroids hitting the Earth. The bad? You probably don't want to buy any coastfront property any time soon anyway. More » -
#armageddonavoided
How Best To Avoid Asteroid Apocalypse
What can you do when asteroids are about to hit the Earth, and Bruce Willis is nowhere to be found? Apparently, the answer may involve nuclear explosions in space to try and speed it up. More » -
#asteroidcolloquy
Asteroids May Wipe Us Out, But Might Also Let Us Expand Beyond Earth
The New York Times hosts an asteroid discussion, including the upside: StrangeHorizons.com's Susan Marie Groppi points out how often asteroids save our space-opera heroes. And astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell advocates expanding outwards by mining near-Earth objects. -
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#spaceporn
The White Dwarf that Shattered Asteroids and Earths
Rings of debris from shattered asteroids and Earth-like planets orbit many white dwarf stars - their remains testimony to how common Earth-like bodies really are in space. -
#liveactionvideogames
Europeans Play Asteroids — For Real!
Europe's Rosetta space probe just flew past the Steins asteroid earlier today, and here's an artist's impression of the event. The plucky little probe flew into an asteroid belt and did a close flyby of Steins, which is a rare E-type asteroid. The data from the flyby will give us way more insights into the evolution of our solar system by allowing scientists to examine matter dating from different eras. Click through for another asteroid flyby image, plus an impression of Rosetta reaching its final destination in 2014: the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. (And then Rosetta will follow the comet around the sun.) More »
