[Flipside]

Look at it this way, if one hit tomorrow, you're screwed, end of story

Look at it this way, 50 years ago, people were imagining life on Mars. Then we wen't there and proved there wasn't. Then we went back and said 'Coo! There IS life after all!'.

Science Fact is only ever as accurate as the understanding behind it, they could change all the rules tomorrow

Sorry, cryptic mood

Oh yes, and better luck next time Wolf, I think I've got a nice comet lying around here somewhere...........

[Snakeseyes]

I don't believe in propabilities.

As someone else said, something that has a .000000001% propability to happen, happens in 9 out of 10 times.

[CP5670]

It does if there are over 1000000 things out there to hit us.

They only have some 20 or so listed on that site though. It is possible that most of them have been undetected, but then again you must consider the fact that no really large asteroid (i.e. with continental destructive power, the kind we are talking about here) has hit the Earth as far back as recorded history goes.

Look at it this way, if one hit tomorrow, you're screwed, end of story

Sure, but you could also be hit by a car tomorrow or get mugged in the street by gangsters, along with a thousand other similar events, but that should not keep you constantly worrying about them. (the probabilities of these things happening are hundreds of times higher actually )

[Tar-Palantir]

So sleep well everyone.

[Stryke 9]

Yees, sleep...

Though my asteroid plot failed, I still have my subliminal in-dream brainwashing device! Huhahahaha*cough*

[Dr.Zer0]

Originally posted by Kazashi
You.... *read*... a newspaper.... ????

I never read them, too meny words

err, I keep hitting the top of the 2nd page

[Flipside]

That's my point entirely, if it was on the news tomorrow that an asteroid was going to hit us in a week or something, there is nothing whatsoever you could do about it, I'm sure if we have enough warning we might think of something, but then most governments would spend so long on 'who's idea is best' and 'how much will it cost' that it'd hit before they stopped arguing

Don't worry, be happy

[Kellan]

Originally posted by CP5670
They only have some 20 or so listed on that site though. It is possible that most of them have been undetected, but then again you must consider the fact that no really large asteroid (i.e. with continental destructive power, the kind we are talking about here) has hit the Earth as far back as recorded history goes.

Gee, I wonder why the history before hypothetical extinction-level strikes hasn't been recorded. I think, CP, that that's the whole point of recorded history.

I don't think we'll be hit in my lifetime. The Hard Rain will fall before the Big Rocks, rest assured. Still, at least it would wipe out the Daily Mail.

[TheVirtu]

Did you guys hear about the 12 mile wide crater they found in the ocean? (Cant remember what ocean) It was supposedly made by part of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs.

THANK YOU for getting rid of the Dinosaurs, now just stay away from us.

[Flipside]

Great, we're all gonna get wiped out by one of God's hot-rocks LOL

[CP5670]

Gee, I wonder why the history before hypothetical extinction-level strikes hasn't been recorded. I think, CP, that that's the whole point of recorded history.

okay, but the recorded history still goes back a good 3000 years or so. Besides, I am not saying that there is no possibility of this occuring; what I am saying is that there is nothing to be gaining in living out the rest of our lives constantly worrying about it.

[Kellan]

I was just pointing out the absurdity of using recorded history to judge this issue.

BTW: Nice title you have there now...

[CP5670]

Good enough for our lifetimes, though. (and those of our great-great-great-great-great-etc. descendants )

BTW: Nice title you have there now...

My user was messed up a few weeks ago, so the admins just dropped in a new title while they were fixing things up.

[an0n]

They've found a massive underwater crater 20 miles off the coast from Hull. 60 million years old. I'd say that's a pretty good candidate for extinctifying the dinosaurs.

[Stealth]

wow

do you have a link to a newspage on it or something?  i want to find out more about it!

[Kellan]

Originally posted by an0n
They've found a massive underwater crater 20 miles off the coast from Hull. 60 million years old. I'd say that's a pretty good candidate for extinctifying the dinosaurs.

Wow, geological proof that Hull exists somewhere near the Seventh Circle of Hell.

[Flipside]

ROFLMAO!!!!

Just add it to the list of evidence.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by an0n
...for extinctifying the dinosaurs.

I do believe that you just coined a new word. Extinctifying. Hmmm. I'll have to remember that.

[Kazashi]

I believe this page has the story you're looking for.

Something of interest to note is that the asteroid which was supposed to have hit the Yucatan wasn't the sole cause of extinctifying the dinosaurs. According to what's been found so far, dinosaur numbers were dropping in number a million years before the impact, and were still around a million years after the event. Maybe this other rock could've had an impact (no pun intended) further down the track, though only being a mere fraction the size of the former. But remember, 5 million years is a long time.

[Dark_4ce]

Yeah, I heard about that in the news. Who knows. It might be correct. I for one believe that the dinosaurs died out more slowly, from frequent asteroid impacts instead of just one. But like I said, who knows. My absolute FAVORITE theory is one brought on by my friend during a time of mental instability... He hypothesised that the dinosaurs in fact became REALLY REALLY smart and advanced after so many years of evolution. Then during the peak of they're civilization they were able to track the incoming comet/asteroid that was going to hit the Earth and decided to pack everything up before it hit. They built giant spaceships and finally left the Earth the day the asteroid/comet impacted. Now the favorite part of this theory is that he even had a explanation for the fossils. They were the dead burnt bodies of the dinosaurs left behind  that were under the giant rocket engines when the spaceships took off! He also theorised that the dinosaurs are still up there, behind the moon, monitoring us and experimenting with us, so that they can find our weakneses and one day re-take the Earth! He also beleived that the States knows about this Dinosaur space station behind the moon, but it would cost too much money for them to go there and attack it.

Heheheh... I just love that guys theories...