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Asteroid Splashdown Won't Kill Us... Immediately

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Darksider1972
04/17/09

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Hmm with 70% of the earth covered in water, Odds are one would hit the ocean instead of Land, time to move to Nebraska to avoid being PWNT by falling water, lol..
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tetracycloide
04/17/09

@Darksider1972: i've heard that drowning to death is a very psychologically painful way to die until you pass out from lack of oxygen and start to breath water at which point it's a little like dreaming. living in a nebraska is similar only without the passing out and dreaming part.
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GiltProto
04/17/09

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That's large amounts of water and large numbers of whales falling from the sky...
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/17/09

@GiltProto: Floating in the way that bricks don't.
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twophrasebark
04/17/09

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But... what happens if a 200-metre meter asteroid hits land?

"Oh, in that case, you will die horribly. Most horribly," says Gisler.
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twophrasebark
04/17/09

Okay, I just made that up. The quote, I mean. Not the dying horribly part.
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GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
04/17/09

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Well, as long as Bud convinces the Aliens that there is a reason not to wipe us out using a transcript of the conversation he had w/Lindsay, they should just hold the wave in place till they make it gently collapse.
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Fate'sBitch
04/17/09

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The real danger, of course, is when Owen Wilson gets a case of the 'space crazies,' but as long as we keep that under control I'm sure the plan of drilling into an asteroid and planting a bomb is still a solid one.

Because we have no plan on how to deal with asteroids and instead at the moment prior to our doom we'll be forced to cull ideas from crappy movies made in the 90's.
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Dr Emilio Lizardo
04/17/09

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"Water falling directly from the sky."

OMG! How will I and my fellow witches made out of brown sugar cope?

I've been to Oslo, didn't really strike me as a desert, but apparently they are not familiar with rain.
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tetracycloide
04/17/09

@Dr Emilio Lizardo: i don't know about the rain in your area but typically the rain in mine is not traveling at 300 m/s.
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Dr Emilio Lizardo
04/17/09

@tetracycloide: Metric system? PAH!

What is that, a refreshing drizle?
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tetracycloide
04/17/09

@Dr Emilio Lizardo: a torrential downpoor, 3 inches an hour, typically falls at around ~60 m/s.
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Illogic
04/17/09

@Dr Emilio Lizardo: I'm thinking it's sorta like jumping into water from 60 meters up in the air, except in reverse.

Or water with fists and a bad attitude.
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Grey_Area
04/17/09

@Illogic: Or a rainfall of 3cm ALL AT ONCE. Buildings could be flattened. And that umbrella? Forget it.
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Syrax
04/17/09

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Is that the 2012 thing or something else?
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Islandkiwi
04/18/09

@Syrax: I think the 2012 thing has to do with sunspots/solar flares.
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tetracycloide
04/17/09

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of course once the waves get closer to shore and start to break due to the depth of the water they'll get bigger again. the maximum height of the 2004 tidal wave that killed 350,000 people while it was over open water was 60cm (that's a 'c' for centi). still, as the article points out the true reason asteroids pose a small tsunami threat is more the wavelength and peroid of the wave than then just the height.
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
04/17/09

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You know, people have been tossing around a sequel to Point Break for a long time. Even 60 meter high waves would make for a quality movie.

Hollywood get on it!
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
04/17/09

@OW-Holmes: This is just a clarifier... When you see something like this in my next Disaster column... I'd already started to work on it, before this comment, but I'll maybe give Holmes a nod if and when I pull it off.
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Grey_Area
04/17/09

@OW-Holmes: Ever read Lucifer's Hammer? There's a great scene of a surfer riding the impact wave over the streets of LA. His bros get sucked under or smashed by cars. 30 miles inland he's still riding the wave, "Dude! I'm gonna make it. I'm totally gonna make it!" Then half of an apartment building rolls over the crest right over the surfer.

Scene ends right there.

Bitchin'!
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
04/17/09

@Garrison Dean: "Maybe gives Holmes a nod." Maybe!

You are going to be hearing from my lawyer. I am definitely the first person to think of this and have a super copyright over everything, ever.

@Grey_Area:

Nevermind.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
04/17/09

@Grey_Area: And in Escape from LA which is also a classic... in it's own way.
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