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# 1 moss said, on June 16th, 2006 at 6:19 am

Thanks, Uncle Dave.

It’s a very creative piece of work. I wish I knew what the voiceover was saying.

# 2 colin said, on June 16th, 2006 at 7:15 am

This clip is from the NHK and canadian Discovery channel production called Miracle Planet. It is a 5 parter. You can dl it off torrent sites.

# 3 Peter Rodwell said, on June 16th, 2006 at 8:02 am

I don’t understand Japanese – did they say how many weeks’ supply of tinned food we should stash in the basement for when this happens?

# 4 bILL said, on June 16th, 2006 at 8:41 am

One has to believe that the average density and harness of astronomical bodies has to be very similar… if so, then the body striking the earth should have also had some physical damage; at the moment of impact, its surface should have started distorting…

Good animation, but it does not seem to obey the laws of physics…

# 5 ECA said, on June 16th, 2006 at 9:17 am

It would take 5+ years of stored foods, to clean the atmosphere.
IF,
It didnt destroy the atmosphere.
If you werent with in 500 mles of impact.
IF it didnt Polute the earth with something that we cant control.

# 6 Stephan said, on June 16th, 2006 at 1:22 pm

Someone said in an above post that the object striking the earth should have also had some physical dame…. I just wanted t point out that the object striking the earth completely liquified.

# 7 Stephan said, on June 16th, 2006 at 1:25 pm

personally I think the more interesting subject would be how an object that size could throw the earth completely out of orbit.

# 8 Mark T. said, on June 16th, 2006 at 4:07 pm

By the looks of the size of the planetoid in this video, this would most likely split the earth wide open like an over ripe grape, if not blow it into a billion pieces. Heck, the planetoid in this video looks like it is the size of the Moon.

Does anybody here understand Japanese? What exactly is the point of this animation, other than morbid curiosity and/or the Japanese’ fascination with tsunamis and nuclear explosions.

I find it interesting that the animation shows the asteroid hitting off the coast of Japan. Where was Godzilla to stop this thing?

# 9 Awake said, on June 16th, 2006 at 7:28 pm

Wow.. now that’s what I call global warming.

# 10 Joe said, on June 18th, 2006 at 8:13 pm

I expect Godzilla to appear at the end of the clip.

# 11 john said, on June 18th, 2006 at 8:50 pm

looks like the death star at one point

# 12 JULIO said, on June 18th, 2006 at 8:53 pm

DAM! THAT WAS SCARY AND IT SURE MADE ME THINK ABOUT HOW ALL OF US ARE SO VULNERABLE WE REALLY ARE…
AND NO WE DON’T NEED TO SPEAK JAPANEESE TO UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF THIS VIDEO…

# 13 hokujin said, on June 18th, 2006 at 8:56 pm

what happened to the angular momentum. on top of that, the trajectory is completely unrealistic. the large body distortions weren’t accounted for or explained at all, either.

# 14 Jeremy said, on June 18th, 2006 at 9:04 pm

…. but her voice is sooo reassuring.

# 15 ken ray said, on June 18th, 2006 at 9:08 pm

Recent reports tell us we wouldn’t see the thing coming, well, unless it WAS super gigantic, maybe, but that we’d have a few seconds at most to see it tearing through the atmosphere before tearing us a new navel. I realize the video was slow motion. I’d like to see an animation, real-time, of how it would look from Japan. Over in a flash…..guess I really didn’t have much to say. I’m more interested in what a smaller asteroid could do. Yay Youtube! funny Godzilla comments….surprized they haven’t worked this angle into a movie …yet, or, have they?????

# 16 arrowship said, on June 18th, 2006 at 9:12 pm

Hey, it’s a fictional animation. I don’t think they are trying to create a
blockbuster movie ( i.e The Day after Tomorrow). Point is something
like this may be possible. I think the message got across.

# 17 Neal K said, on June 18th, 2006 at 9:22 pm

Totally unrealistic. This should only scare the uninformed.

This scenario simply couldn’t happen, it defies Newtonian Physics at several levels.

Cute, makes great hyperbole entertainment for the sky is falling crowd but it’s just fantasy. Chill. Only with computer graphics is this possible.

I’m surprised Al Gore didn’t pop up and warn us that this is all our fault. If he were president, he could stop this, right?

# 18 Wm H said, on June 18th, 2006 at 9:28 pm

The possibility of this happening is 100%, it’s not a question of if, but when. For those unaware, top scientist and Governments have been studying ways to deflect or destroy astroids that may pose a threat to the Earth. At present we are at risk of being hit sometime around 2012. And for the guy asking how much canned food to store up, forget it, all life will be destroyed within minuets of impact if something as large as what was depected in the video hits Earth.

# 19 donnaboo said, on June 18th, 2006 at 9:33 pm

Well,couple quick observations. The object looked like Jupiter moon that is now known to be huge space ship replica,at the end earth looked like a binary burnt out sun tht is missing in our suns world.
Pretty cool animation,could visualize the feeling of people as the huge shadow of death made its appearance overhead,YIPES!
I sure hope they are not trying to give us a HINT of anything.
I prefer the direct approach.
I saw Godzilla running for dear life out of the ocean too!
Anyone else see the candy-butt?

# 20 Mike said, on June 18th, 2006 at 9:45 pm

Bring it on ! It would be nice to have a warning, at least long enough to set up lawn chairs.

# 21 LZ said, on June 18th, 2006 at 9:47 pm

Uh, this video, while pretty, is ridiculous. For you posters who say that it’s not a matter of “if” but “when” we’ll be struck by an “asteroid” please note that the size of the object in this clip is roughly the size of the moon…not the size of the asteroids that are generally tracked / watched / worried about (which are much smaller).

On top of that, why would anybody even ask the question “what would happen if earth was struck by a planetoid?” You might as well as “what would happen if earth was overrun by a colony of 700-foot tall chinchillas” because it’s probably not gonna happen (although I’m sure that video would be equally entertaining).

And, again, to the posters that said we “wouldn’t see this coming” um, yeah, I’m pretty sure we’d see something the size of the moon coming. For quite a while. Like, years.

# 22 notjeremy said, on June 18th, 2006 at 10:07 pm

Hey Jeremy, her voice was reassuring. I felt a total calm while everything and everyone burned! Those Japenese are smoothe talkers.

The object seemed to be suspended, and in slow motion before hitting. The graphics were cool but, for me at least, they didn’t seem realistic.

# 23 Mark Salman said, on June 18th, 2006 at 10:19 pm

“Hie! — Uhhhh… Moshee Moshee. “

# 24 Sam Kimpton said, on June 18th, 2006 at 10:22 pm

Interesting video but I have two criticisms:

1. The impactor is atypically spherical given its size.

2 The energy liberation of the passage of the impactor through the earths atmosphere at cosmic velocities would give rise to luminosities exceeding that of the sun. admittedly this phenominnon would be exceedingly transient but it is not depicted in the video.

3. Shock waves would not only propagate through the target at hypersonic velicities but also through the impactor. vaporizing all but a small proportion of the trailing surface of the latter. Also not depicted in the video.

4. Secondary impacts created by some ejecta would also be sufficient to create impact craters.

5. the lens of moltem material would not be relagated to the impact structures interior. There would be similar lenses formed by impact melt splash.

# 25 vic said, on June 18th, 2006 at 10:25 pm

Nice animation but as somesomeone already mentioned it defies the laws of physics. A planetoid that size be captured by one of the outer planets, Jupitor and it probably wouldn’t come near the inner planets. And if it did The suns gavitaional pull would most likely rip it apart before it neared anywhere near mars.

# 26 lambert lewis said, on June 18th, 2006 at 10:38 pm

Something to think about, iam 65 years old and my Grand Mother told me when i was small child. THAT IT IS ALWAYS,BETTER TO THANK THAT IS-THEN TO THINK IT IS NOT

# 27 Chet M said, on June 18th, 2006 at 10:39 pm

I agree with Vic, the outer gas giants, Jupitor or Saturn would most likley capture it before it came anywhere near the inner planets. And even if it did, if it was travelling at that speed the sun’s gravitional pull would probably suck it in to the sun.

# 28 Raymond Collier said, on June 18th, 2006 at 10:40 pm

The planetiod that was used in the simulation is the same size of the planetiod that was responsible for the creation of the Moon in Earth’s early history (About 3.5 billions years ago). I think that this size planetiod would be a Planet Killer!

# 29 nolocontendere said, on June 18th, 2006 at 11:16 pm

An impactor of that size would be torn apart at the Roche Limit where the gravitational stress of earth would overcome that of the smaller body. Small matter but wasn’t shown in the video.

# 30 David said, on June 18th, 2006 at 11:20 pm

This was a very optimistic view of what would happen if we were hit with something of that size. The Earth would crack open (if not worse) hit with something that size.

# 31 MAtt said, on June 18th, 2006 at 11:27 pm

Well, I don’t think the point of this video is to represent what would actually happen if a planetoid crashed into the earth. It’s supposed to seem that way in order to keep the audience’s attention. But that’s besides the fact, it would suck for all of us.

# 32 Capt. Red said, on June 18th, 2006 at 11:29 pm

Quicker than waiting for a nuclear “Jihad”. This would be an act of kindness. Hopefully before we figure a way to get off this planet and spread our holy wars in space.

# 33 ian said, on June 18th, 2006 at 11:45 pm

The crater from the impact would be so vast, given the size of the object…but the size would be relative to speed of that great ball, which was not depicted.

# 34 Cliff S said, on June 18th, 2006 at 11:50 pm

All I got to say is so long, it was a nice life
we all got to die some tome right?

# 35 hucktunes said, on June 19th, 2006 at 12:40 am

She did have a very pleasant voice. I liked the way the kids partied on at the end.

# 36 T12 said, on June 19th, 2006 at 1:06 am

I just have two things to ask in light of all this…

If none of this were at all possible and just the ramblings of scared lunatics & conspiricy theorists drivel, then why;

Why does the pope have an obseratory in Tuscon Arizona unless he is looking for something out there? could it be that he believes that whatever it is he’s searching for may be on it’s way here?

If we have nothing to fear such as asteroids or other planetary objects striking our planet, thus leveling small towns or large cities in it’s wake as many others are inclined to believe is upon us soon, then Why would the RAND Corp. take an ‘official stance’ in their statement indicating it would be in our best interest to “Not” warn the general public of an impending impactor of such magnatude? If nothing of this is to come, then why bother even taking up such a position to make a comment like this?

# 37 robertT said, on June 19th, 2006 at 1:27 am

Our moon was said to have been created when the Earth was struck by a planetoid nearly the size of Mars.

# 38 Chup@Cabra said, on June 19th, 2006 at 2:30 am

Well, haven’t read all the comments, so this might have been said before. The object looks like a small moon (maybe the size of Phobos or Deimos of mars?). From what i remember from high school science (and the Discovery channel , once it came within a certain range of earth it would be broken up by the earth’s gravity. The results would still be devastating, but it wouldn’t be one solid hit.

# 39 B Simonetti said, on June 19th, 2006 at 2:35 am

…all I know is that the lusciuos voice of that narrator had me imagining drinking warm Saki from her rosewood box, to hell with the annihilation of the world…

# 40 jim said, on June 19th, 2006 at 4:42 am

Was this in the algore movie?

# 41 LZ said, on June 19th, 2006 at 4:58 am

Aaaaaah, who are they trying to kid with this? Everybody knows that if an impactor that size hit the earth, the earth would crack open and it’s yolk would spill out into the solar system, drifting towards the sun, where it would begin to turn into a vast stellar omelet.

If this is NOT true then why does the Pope sometimes eat eggs for breakfast?! If it’s NOT true then why does the RAND corporation capitalize all the letters of its company name?!

My grandmother used to say “IT’S BETTER TO THANK THAN TO NOT THANK AND BE A JERK.” after which I’d say “Grandma, seriously, why are you yelling?! All caps means you’re yelling! Pipe down grandma!”

You people who don’t believe this is a documentary from our future brought back time Time Travelers™ need to get a clue! This has already happened in the future. Maybe not our future, maybe not any future, but definitely a future somewhere along some space-time continuum that’s out there right outside of our solar system. Or maybe on the moon.

# 42 Kevin Schreier said, on June 19th, 2006 at 5:22 am

Will my gold fish be safe in pond outdoors? Actually, I am in favor of nuking anything remotely approaching his planet and at least a distance away to have the gravity of other planets pull the fall out away.

# 43 rob said, on June 19th, 2006 at 5:32 am

I think If something that large hits, 5 years of food won’t help. Looks like the basic act of breathing will be on your mind. If you survive the bar-b-que session.

# 44 R.Macon said, on June 19th, 2006 at 5:46 am

I don’t speak Japenese, but maybe their trying to tell us to be thankful for what we have—-not give us a lesson in physics or astronomy or any other science–lighten up people its animation; geeze!

# 45 Laurie said, on June 19th, 2006 at 5:57 am

Now there’s a way to get rid of Karl Rove and neocons…

# 46 Jan said, on June 19th, 2006 at 6:23 am

An object that size, game over, wait another 30 million years
for life to come back.

Better build your extraplanetary UFO.

Mars would be a paradise in comparision.

# 47 J Marx said, on June 19th, 2006 at 6:34 am

This IS a possibility.

Last summer at 2:30am EST we blew up an H-bomb on an asteroid after it was dug in by probe launched from a satellite we put up to watch the whole thing miles away. Watched it live on FOX News, you know what it did….nothing. NASA has tracked and probably still is tracking deviation for long term assessment. The concept there being a centimeter a day with 10- 20 years knowlege, might be enough. The other concept NASA is at work on is called a ‘gravity tractor’, which would be a large man-made object launched to accomplish the same idea, but through the use of a ‘tugboat’.
We DO in fact have the chance to be hit by an asteroid that is why we sent those probes up. In the 2020s an object WILL pass through Earth’s orbit. IF the object passes within a certain distance of Earth, it’s orbit will be altered to collide with us in a return pass in 2036. This is public knowledge. This came out I believe in September, but I do know for a fact that I read off page A3 in the Washington Post.
People please learn how to connect the dots in the world you live in and whom you put your trust in to take care of the things you don’t spend a moment thinking about it. Someone said it best here…..Quicker than waiting for a nuclear “Jihad”. This would be an act of kindness. Hopefully before we figure a way to get off this planet and spread our holy wars in space. We have been externally corrected before, not just once.

# 48 Dana Devoe said, on June 19th, 2006 at 6:43 am

Incredible video, can I get a copy of it, can I download it?

# 49 crowjr68 said, on June 19th, 2006 at 7:06 am

That was pretty freaky, although I doubt we would ever see anything like that happen. An asteroid? maybe. A planet? doubtful. They say it happened before, who’s to say it won’t happen again!

# 50 Belyflopper said, on June 19th, 2006 at 7:25 am

Entertaining clip…but very strong on fiction. Sure an impact from space would cause a great deal of damage..but lets give physics a say in this scenario.Oh…and if it were within possibility..forget the canned food in the basement.

# 51 alex said, on June 19th, 2006 at 7:26 am

There’s all this talk of colonizing the moon or Mars. What we really need to do is colonize a roaming planetoid such as this one. Now that would be one neat ride. I’ll get to work on the logistics after lunch.

# 52 Dan G. said, on June 19th, 2006 at 8:08 am

I guess nows about as good as time as any, to wrap up our dominance on Earth. The way things are now I firmly believe that the earth should be populated and dominated by cockroaches. Mankind has a way of screwing things up, so why shouldn’t the galaxy screw us up.

# 53 Max Bell said, on June 19th, 2006 at 8:32 am

Hmm. I bet Halliburton/KBR/Nabisco/BP have plans to build giant steam turbines to harness the power of something like this. This could solve the gas crisis!

Still. This ruins my surprise. I’ve been building a giant, burnt marshmallow to crash into the earth in my back yard for the last five years.

Curse you, UAVs! You ruin EVERYTHING!

# 54 Dick Gellner said, on June 19th, 2006 at 9:12 am

What a bunch of BS. It looked more like my cooking.

# 55 Gary Marks said, on June 19th, 2006 at 9:30 am

With our luck, just when we get to the point where we’ll be capable of colonizing in space, our first colony will be on the one body destined to collide with Earth. Oops!

# 56 DogWings said, on June 19th, 2006 at 9:36 am

So basically, life here in Arizona would be about the same. HOT.

# 57 John Ski said, on June 19th, 2006 at 10:10 am

WOW this was a great Video! I cant wait until the real thing Happens!

# 58 MikeW said, on June 19th, 2006 at 10:13 am

I would like to see it again in asterios sizes, 200meters, 2000 meeters, and 20Km. Also, in ocean impacts, and landstrikes.
Let’s look at the whole range of possiblities, starting with realistic possabilities, like apophis.
Mike

# 59 Madagascar Penquins said, on June 19th, 2006 at 10:22 am

The Book of Revelation tells us that prior to the expected Great Tribulation and Rapture, a rogue star called Wormwood will approach dangerously close to Earth. Although it itself will not hit us, Earth will pass through its debris field. Like repeated shotgun blasts, our entire planet will be pelted with megatons of devastating, fiery meteorites—including at least one the size of a “mountain” hitting an ocean (just like in the movie Deep Impact). Most of us will be so unprepared for this that we will literally “run to the hills” for shelter. When we emerge, we will find our civilization in ruins –

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# 60 dcrews said, on June 19th, 2006 at 10:29 am

Sure, it has to hit North America! I’m glad I didn’t see anyone I knew.
Some people are taking this way too seriously. But then, what’s with the recent statement by Stephen Hawking about needing to find a new place to live soon?
Oh, well – looks like everything turns out okay in the end.
Don’t worry. Be happy.
Doug
PS: There is a Planet X.

# 61 Gary Marks said, on June 19th, 2006 at 10:31 am

#59 Madagascar, that sounds like an excellent subject for your very own blog, where writing such lengthy posts will be a matter for your descretion only.

Note to Mods… if you kill Madagascar’s comment, please kill this as well.

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# 62 eddie said, on June 19th, 2006 at 10:39 am

ROCK AND ROLL WILL SURVIVE!

# 63 JimR said, on June 19th, 2006 at 10:56 am

I have two reactions…

1) Who cares? If your time is up, what’s the difference if your’e hit by a car or vaporized by a planetoid. What exactly is the importance of the endless survival of humankind?

2) We’re slowly destroying the earth like termites anyway. We rip up the oxygen producing forests, shit everything imaginable into the water we drink, pump tons upon tons of poisonous gasses into the atmosphere we breath, procreate more people than the earth can feed, and on and on. But hey, it’s all worth it because we’ve got lots of neat stuff.

By the time that big scary rock hits, we may welcome it.

# 64 Chris said, on June 19th, 2006 at 11:06 am

The voice over is talking about how John Dvorak gets no spam!

# 65 Skeith said, on June 19th, 2006 at 11:11 am

Did anyone else see Bruce Willis and Steve Bushemi riding the planetoid during its fatal collision

# 66 Peter Rodwell said, on June 19th, 2006 at 11:12 am

My comment about canned food was only a joke! I saw a report towards the end of 1999 of some crazies stacking TONS of canned food in their church basement in some place like Deadbeathorse, AZ, ready for the Bad Times caused by the Millenium Bug. I wonder if they’ve eaten it yet?

# 67 Madagascar Penquins said, on June 19th, 2006 at 11:18 am

WHAT IS PLANET X?

Planet X is a planet that the ancient Sumerians referred to as “Nibiru.”

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# 68 baltakatei said, on June 19th, 2006 at 11:44 am

An English translation is available under the “About This Video” on the video’s YouTube page. As for the simulated diameter and velocity, that rock is moving pretty fast:

“The diameter of the meteorite is slightly bigger than the breadth of Honshu Japan. The collision point is located at the 3,000km south from Japan in the ocean. The velocity of the meteorite is 70,000km/h. But the meteorite is bigger than we can imagine, so that it appears much slower.”

# 69 STUARTMEYERS said, on June 19th, 2006 at 11:45 am

Push Mars closer to the sun almost in earth orbit and terraform it. Now we have a place to escape to…I will start building the thruster rockets this weekend after my honey-do list…

# 70 JimR said, on June 19th, 2006 at 11:59 am

What happens if this blog get’s hit by a monterous post the size of Madagascar?

All life on Blog stares in awe ot the pending disaster. Miliseconds after initial impact the blog distorts violently, sending words and letters flying to the perimiter. Scroll bars caught in an imobile state of time-space, appear endless.

But as quick as the realization of pending doom, our God wiggles his fingers and the monsterous post disappears below the surface, leaving little trace of it’s former self.

Halleluiah!

# 71 Mr. H. Fusion said, on June 19th, 2006 at 12:07 pm

Fiction.

If an object that size approached earth, the gravitational forces would rip apart the earth’s crust long before it hit the earth. The severe earthquakes, with all the accompanying devastations, would be beyond current comprehension. Literally, we would be holding onto whatever we could because of the shaking, we would never notice the asteroid / moon approaching. Between the earthquake damage and shock wave, there would be nothing left alive on earth.

Could it happen? Probably a very minor possibility for an object that size, there just are not that many out there floating through space. All known large objects have been captured into orbits already. Any other large objects have already impacted a planet.

A much smaller object becomes that much more probable as there are proportionally that many more of them. An asteroid of only a few miles across could still cause severe damage, especially depending upon what direction it hit the earth from.

But hey, the animation was good practice for those kids looking for a job.

Uncle Dave, I noticed you couldn’t resist publishing Madagascar Penquins diatrabe. You could have stopped at page 98.

# 72 Gary Marks said, on June 19th, 2006 at 12:20 pm

#70 JimR, I hope this isn’t just the beginning of the dreaded “Madagascar Shower” that was prophesied in Revelation.

# 73 Uncle Dave said, on June 19th, 2006 at 12:48 pm

Mr. H, his post has become a victim of survival of the fitest (ie, evolution) through the application of the all powerful, Hand Of Dvorak [cue thunder] that we, his lowly editors, are free to wield at will in fulfilling His Guidelines as writ on the holy Microsoft Origami Tablets.

# 74 forrest said, on June 19th, 2006 at 12:58 pm

According to my Japanese source, the video says that the temperature heat wave that blast through the planet will happen in ONE day. Temperatures on the planet will be as high as 4000 degrees C. Within one month, the ocean’s water will evaporate at a rate of around 10 – 15 cm a second.

Nothing would survive this kind of impact…

# 75 JimR said, on June 19th, 2006 at 1:38 pm

#72 Gary, no worries. The fiery shower came well before the “great burning mountain” landed in the sea and killed one third of its creatures, or the “great star” hit the earth and fouled one third of the rivers with poison. But there’s no need for either anymore, we did it ourselves and we’re way ahead of schedule. God MUST be impressed.

Gary, The Revelation I referred to was lost from scripture long ago, but I happened to come across it while digging in my garden.
Revelation 9:22
“The seventh angel sounded, and one third of the most prominent blog was struck by a huge input of data, mortal words became meaningless, and one third of the bloggers had scrolls of the Dead Sea. A great thunder rumbled across the land and it sounded like “crap!”. Suddenly the data receeded and all manner of contributions returned as it was.”

# 76 joshua said, on June 19th, 2006 at 2:38 pm

sorry guys….this is a far more realistic end of the world scenerio.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/endofworld.html

# 77 Kevin said, on June 19th, 2006 at 2:40 pm

You guys are all idiots…..I just thank God that in my lifetime I won’t have to worry about it……The fact is, if the asteroid that hits us is 5-10 miles across, we shall all most likely die, and the people on the coast…..well, may they swim well…..there is no end that will be nice and sweet for this world, may we all be lucky enough to die in old age, and peacefully……

# 78 don k said, on June 19th, 2006 at 2:44 pm

damn north koreans ,

# 79 Tom said, on June 19th, 2006 at 2:52 pm

This is just Wonderful, I mean think about it

The Right Wing Conservatives would be happy cause you wouldn’t have to pay taxes

The Left Wing Liberals would love it cause they could say we were right all along

The Church would be happy cause they could stop fighting off gay marriages and abortions

The doom and Gloomers would be happy

I mean, come on its the perfect answer for every group, sect, religious belief…I would think they would welcome such a Horrific end to the world.

# 80 Carl said, on June 19th, 2006 at 2:53 pm

I know this observation has already been posted, but that sucker is quite obviously rivaling our moon in size. Even the largest known asteroid, ceres, doesnt come close. Its pretty far fetched for that reason. We should more likely worry about a 1.5- 5 km object. Such an object probably wouldnt create the cinematic grandeur displayed here, but would still cause a horrific heat flash, tidal waves, and the most colossal earthquake in history. thinks would be quite different for any survivors than what we are used to to be sure. What really worries me are comets. They are moving super fast, can appear in a few months, and sneak up on us quite effectively. If hale Bopp had hit us with its 20 km+ nucleus at cometary speeds, it would have probably exterminated all multicellular life on the planet. Its a pretty vid but very far fetched.

# 81 JimR said, on June 19th, 2006 at 3:01 pm

I don’t mean to flog a dead penguin here, but in no way does Relevations depict the destruction of earth by an asteroid. The “fallout” brought forth by the first angel comes BEFORE “a great burning mountain” is thrown into the sea by the second angel killing 1/3 of the sea creatures (geez, what did they do to deserve that) but apparently insufficient to hurt land dwellers, and then “a great star” falls from the sky sprinkling 1/3 of the rivers and springs with Wormwood, which is an herb. (neat trick, but not typical of a wayward asteroid or bowling with Planet X).

Fortunately Wormwood (Artemisia Absinthium), although very bitter and foul tasting is not exactly bad. In fact, for medicinal use, the herb is used to make a tea (which is unbelievably bitter to taste). Its use has been claimed to remedy insufficient gastric acid, to promote blood circulation in the pelvic regions and biliary excretions, act as a disinfectant, and as a vermifuge. It is also used in spirits and wines such as Vermouth. Yum. Wormwood falling into 1/3 of our streams would make a healty tea for some and provide a natural flea and moth repellant for others. Scary stuff.

# 82 Marshall said, on June 19th, 2006 at 3:28 pm

I like to think out of the box a bit. We are always talking about asteroids or some other impactor hitting the planet. If it hit the moon and knocked it out of our orbit or hit it and annihilated it, the damage would cause the end of life on earth as we know it from falling moon ejecta made up of rock and plasma. Lunar tides would stop and cause global climate change worse than anything we could imagine (unless of course it did hit Earth instead).

# 83 Gary Marks said, on June 19th, 2006 at 3:37 pm

#76 joshua, great Flash video — two thumbs up!

#81 JimR, at the risk of stating the obvious, your first mistake was the research. Just BELIEVE, dammit!

#79 Tom, even on a Monday, I feel comfortable awarding the “Spinmeister of the Week” award to you, for showing us why apocalyptic death is a huge win for all of us!

# 84 mr. noory said, on June 19th, 2006 at 4:08 pm

well yes, every one who talked about science is right won’t happen LIKE that ,smaller astroid bunch of different stuff,

# 85 Cathryn said, on June 19th, 2006 at 5:22 pm

I found this very interest. But I wish I knew what she was saying.

Colin said there are sites to dl this. Colin could you or someone else please post a direct url to one. I’d be very thankful to that person.

Even if I can’t understand a word she says. I’d still like to have this.

Thanks.

Cathryn Collins

# 86 Cathryn said, on June 19th, 2006 at 5:26 pm

Oh and you can just email me the url if you rather.

Thanks again. This really is an interesting take on a ‘what if’. And the vid was well done too. Loved the music. Still would be nice to know what she was all saying tho.

Cathryn Collins

# 87 Vance said, on June 19th, 2006 at 5:27 pm

very interesting.should it come to pass, all life as we know it would cease to exist. not a pretty thought

# 88 Karl Viklund said, on June 19th, 2006 at 5:40 pm

This movie was pretty bad actually. I’m not a scientist but I will just tell you what I have read in scientist periodicals and seen on science-TV.

First. Did you see the size of that thing that hit the earth? It was enormous. If a thing that big would hit the earth earth would have been blow into pieces instantly.

When they have showed programs about a scenario like this on TV here in Sweden they have said that even a small rock would have a searious inpact on earth. A rock about 100 m in diameter would make serious damage to earth. In the speed the rock hits earth it would release and enormous amount of energy. A rock at 1000 m in diameter would mean the end to the life on earth. I don’t remember how much but it would be like millions of atomic bombs at once or something like that. All the dust from the hit would cover earth and make earth cold and dead and we would see a new ice-age for thousands of years. All life on earth would die. A rock of the size in that movie would probably tear the earth apart.

# 89 Uncle Dave said, on June 19th, 2006 at 5:46 pm

Cathyn:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JHdYBet_4Q

# 90 Derek Simpson said, on June 19th, 2006 at 5:52 pm

I have to agree with statement made from Marshall (comment #82). As trivial as it may seem the slightest alteration of the moons orbital path from an asteriod or comit impact would have profound consequences for earth.

They should put Godzilla on the moon to eat the asteroids.

# 91 Larry Bentley said, on June 19th, 2006 at 5:59 pm

The video made it clear that the planetoid was on the verge of breaking up before impact.

Now assuming the worst case scenario. That a planetoid this size actually made it to that point in one piece. Taking into consideration the speeds involved. And doing some quick mental gym on calculating the amount of heat that would be required to reduce that ball of rock into so much slag. If, and I say if something like that were to strike the earth it would be like shooting a golfball struck by Tiger Woods with a .22long rifle firing randomly in any direction. So im partial to the celestial omlet theory if it did happen. Im also partial to the same chances of hitting that golf ball as a planetoid of that magnatude hitting the planet. It’s outta my control therefor I do not worry about it.

# 92 Madagascar Penquins / Reco said, on June 19th, 2006 at 6:03 pm

We The Penquins of Madagascar say ” You cannot deny the Truths that are Written in the Book of Revelations Chapters 8 – 9 Seek the Truth and Sybolism for yourself before you post your own idiotic Theorys.
God, Save the Penquins
Reco

# 93 Madagascar Penquins / Reco said, on June 19th, 2006 at 6:14 pm

We The Penquins of Madagascar say ” You cannot deny the Truths that are Written in the Book of Revelations and the Prophecy of End Times which was Written over 2000 years ago and are all coming ture in our Generation. Infinite Love is the only Truth, Everything Else is lllusion. God Save The Penquins / Reco

# 94 JimR said, on June 19th, 2006 at 6:15 pm

#92 Mad Penguins, …….. oh never mind.

# 95 Madagascar Penquins / Reco said, on June 19th, 2006 at 6:23 pm

http://www.escapeallthesethings.com/planet-x-bible-prophecy-wormwood.htm

http://amightywind.com/planetx/planetx.htm

Save The Penquins
Reco

# 96 Gbonga said, on June 19th, 2006 at 6:24 pm

The object is way bigger than the usual objects of nature falling from heaven.
The angle of impact is way too perpendicular to the ground.

I too believe that, as stars die, so do the planets with the difference being the methods of death. Cataclysmic disasters happen like the one that wiped the Dinosaurs. In such cases even if you stalk tons of food and build underground bunkers, will not save you from death on this earth, unless miraculously some of us are rescured and taken to a different planet as the bible refers to as heaven.

# 97 Randy said, on June 19th, 2006 at 6:46 pm

I think that we are just to take the video as it is presented, without being able to understand the language I would say the hell with storing five years worth the food and all the traditional servival programs. Just say goodbye to as many of your friends as possible, The vidio did not leave me with the hope that there would be anything left to come home to and if there was I’m not sure I would want to.

# 98 Max Bell said, on June 19th, 2006 at 6:55 pm

Geez. Obviously, its unthinkable that the earth would actually be wiped out by a SECULAR asteroid/planetoid/burnt marshmallow.

Clearly, the instant such a body is identified, it will be imperative to dispatch a team of clergy to inquire after its religious affiliation.

# 99 C.S. Clifton said, on June 19th, 2006 at 7:12 pm

“So long–and thanks for all the fish!”

# 100 M said, on June 19th, 2006 at 7:27 pm

To bILL (comment #4):

The video DOES show distortion of the asteroid before impact. Did you not notice the frames between 1:02 and 1:06 where you clearly see the efforts made to show the heating of the asteroid right before impact?

# 101 Rich said, on June 19th, 2006 at 7:45 pm

I think that even if we came up with a way to deflect any object 100m to 1000m across all the nuclear weapons on earth couldnt stop a billion tons of galatic mass coming at us. I say we tip up our drinks put on some sunglasses, set up lawn chairs, bend over and kiss each others arses…it’s been a long haul for mayhem. We ain’t stopping anything that big. Period.

# 102 Dean said, on June 19th, 2006 at 8:31 pm

Wow, and Wow again .. Like Wow .. umm .. Wow

Where was the moon when all this was happening ?

# 103 Pterocat said, on June 19th, 2006 at 11:30 pm

To All The Worried Chicken Littles:
It’s interesting to look at the most recent history of actual terrestrial impact sites on land that are still uneroded. Meteor Crater in northern Arizona is apparently the most recent relatively large one (1.5 miles in diameter…it’s an interesting place, btw, I’ve been there). That one is estimated to have happened 34,000 or so years ago. The next oldest (and larger) one is Wolf Crater in Australia, which hit several hundred thousand years ago. Before that it goes into the millions of years for older ones. It’s perhaps safe to assume an equal frequency of such impacts in the oceans. So, to quote Meher Baba’s famous last words:

“Don’t worry, be happy.”

(of course Tunguska was pretty spectacular but didn’t leave a crater… or do much else)

# 104 Miguel said, on June 19th, 2006 at 11:51 pm

Here’s what she’s saying, in ‘Engrish’ – you can get it in youtube or wherever the file’s being hosted by clicking on ‘more’ to the right of the video –

# 105 Madagascar Penquins / Reco said, on June 20th, 2006 at 4:02 am

Kill all the Humans
God, Save The Penquins
At least we can Swim

Reco

# 106 kris2pe said, on June 20th, 2006 at 5:29 am

This is so FF7 ish!!!

# 107 Roc Rizzo said, on June 20th, 2006 at 7:25 am

Not too unbelievable… Since smaller bodies have impacted the planet at least twice before, that we know about. Both large bodies that impacted the earth, caused major catastrophies, and mass extinctions.

But on the bright side, those who managed to survive, might have a cleaner planet, and try to not let the same thing happen.

Do you think that that’s why last week Stephen Hawking said that we should get off this rock if we are to preserve the species?

# 108 wink said, on June 20th, 2006 at 11:05 am

Yawn. This is nothing compared to what the Zeta Reticulians are going to do to Earth when they discover we’ve reverse engineered their zero point interdimensional transmat under the Great Pyramid of Gaza.

# 109 MikePB said, on June 20th, 2006 at 11:25 am

Or worse…. the Goa’ould!!

# 110 Mark T. said, on June 20th, 2006 at 4:10 pm

Congrats to Uncle Dave for adding the DU post that has resulted in the most blog comments (at least from what I have seen to date).

So, is this a record or what?

# 111 The Madagascar Penquins / Reco said, on June 21st, 2006 at 3:51 am

We The Madagascar Penquins of This Earth Wish to say one Final Word. Were Pissed at all you Stupit Humans, For Taking Everything So Massive into your Puny little Minds , Do you Realize how Small We Really Are, Your 80 + Years Mean Nothing to Anyone Else, You Mean Nothing To The Universal Plan. Thats Already Been Planed Before All of us Were Even Born.
Oh, By the Way The Madagacar Penquins are having a Big Backyard BBQ and Guess What, Your All inviting.

Reco [iii]3 Cheers : )

# 112 The Madagascar Penquins / Reco said, on June 21st, 2006 at 3:53 am

Think Outside The Box.
Stupit Humans
Reco.

# 113 Madagascar Penquins / Reco said, on June 21st, 2006 at 4:47 am

Final Works
We Penquins of Madagascar are Pissed at all the Stupit Humans of the World.
NO FISH FOR YOU !!!

# 114 Uncle Dave said, on June 21st, 2006 at 4:49 am

Mart T,
While it’s far from having the most comments (the ghost car vid — http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=3008 — had nearly 500 and STILL growing), it’s second only to that one in number of people viewing it because other blogs and websites linked to it.

# 115 rory said, on June 21st, 2006 at 12:31 pm

Well everyone might as well wipe their ass and go to bed!!!

# 116 Alison said, on June 23rd, 2006 at 12:58 pm

What WOULD happen if earth was overrun by a colony of 700-foot tall chinchillas (comment 21)? I bet someone here could put together that video. If you are up at 4 in the morning posting comments about bullshit, you should be able to make me a chinchilla video. GET TO IT! Just make sure you stick to Newtonian Physics.

# 117 Alison said, on June 23rd, 2006 at 1:03 pm

To Reco and the Madagascar Penquins (comment 111) – I shall bring the noodle salad. And Zima… I think penguins drink Zima? Someone’s drinking that stuff… maybe its the penguins….

I

# 118 jimbo92107 said, on June 23rd, 2006 at 9:12 pm

I’m getting so sick of Al Gore and his global warming doomsday scenarios. Get over it, Al, Bush stole the election fair and square.

# 119 The Madagascar Penquins / Skipper said, on June 23rd, 2006 at 11:43 pm

Pesident Bush didnt win the election, he was already chosen to be president. He’s and others like him are just a puppets for the real ones that run the world. Have you Notice All the Symbolism and the Secret Owl on your 1 dollar bill yet. Check it out here
http://www.gemworld.com/US-Symbol-1dol.html
This is all some kind of Whack out Conpiracy.
Skipper

# 120 RY said, on June 25th, 2006 at 12:43 pm

Overexaggeration a bit on some parts, but there has already been some impacts on earth that size that have been discovered. It won’t throw Earth out of orbit or shatter Earth into billions of pieces, or crack it open. What it would do, is exactly as the video depicted, with all the fire and ash falling down on Earth, mass tsunamis, as well as a long time, perhaps several months of darkness due to the ash and smoke in the sky, including the smoke from whatever burns due to the fire falling from the sky.

Do some research on End Time meteors/asteroids like the one that could hit Earth in the very distant future. Also, look for some stories on the place near Centeral America which are possible impact areas that started the Ice Age with ideas on how dinosaurs were extinct. The same exact scenario as this video is similar to the ideas some researches have.

Google it….. you’ll find something.

# 121 Scott said, on June 28th, 2006 at 8:03 am

I agree with the statement about the pope’s eggs.

# 122 Buzzy said, on June 30th, 2006 at 3:34 am

I’ll bring the marshmellows, if you bring the beer.

# 123 Pete Cyrog said, on July 1st, 2006 at 10:05 pm

Cute animation, but some pointed out the object should be starting to burn its forward surface in the atmosphere. Then when it hit there should have been a rebound (like a droplet hiting water)and ejected magama merging from the hole as the core would have been penetrated, and splashing up into space, with much of this falling back to earth as meteor-like debris, and trailing to a side because the earth is rotating.

# 124 John said, on July 6th, 2006 at 8:26 pm

Nice video,
although it is not quite correct. Watch the very beginning when the object is approaching earth, The angle of approach is wrong
if it was going to hit, it would be approaching “dead on” and wouldn’t orbit the planet prior to impact for 1 reason gravity. the object would accelerate as it approached. something that size would quickly
reach escape volocity and would only do a close fly-by, if it wasn’t torn to pieces by earth’s gravity first, it would then reach the roche limit rather quickly and be torn to pieces. we would have several new moons, not a destroyed planet. Also note how it decelerates right before impact and seems to stand still. impossible…..

# 125 John said, on July 7th, 2006 at 1:55 pm

here’s the explanation of events in english I got it off of youtubes site….
Looks like somebody knew Japanese…

“Explanation”

What happens when meteorite collide with each other? We tried to find the answers: Simulation Experiment. We presumed that the collision happened with the earth in order for lucid distance and location. The diameter of the meteorite is slightly bigger than the breadth of Honshu Japan. The collision point is located at the 3,000km south from Japan in the ocean. The velocity of the meteorite is 70,000km/h. But the meteorite is bigger than we can imagine, so that it appears much slower. In the impact at the same time as colliding. The earth’s crust of 10km in thickness where ground in the earth is composed is wholly peeled off. This is called,”Earth’s crust tidal wave”. There is 1km width of the rock, and it flies to the sky it by the impact. The impact surges to the Japanese Islands and,as a result, the Japanese Islands are crushed. The splinter of the crushed rock easily exceeds the height of 1000Km. After exceeding the atmosphere it reaches space. Afterwards, the splinter of the rock falls again in surface of the earth. The edge of Crater completed by the collision of the meteorite is 7000m in height. It looks like a huge mountain range. The diameter of Crater has 4000Km. Crater is big to swallow a part from Guam to a Chinese continent. But,it was only an introductory chapter of the tragedy that would start in the future…..

doesn’t make much sense…

# 126 E.T. said, on July 26th, 2006 at 2:17 am

E.T. phone home.
hello there earthlings. i have come to inhabitate all sane human beings minds with a microchip designed to destroy humankind. sheep r cool. you humans will all die. i will reign. sheep r cool. u will all die on the 25th of December. Merrry Xmas

# 127 BobLeira said, on July 27th, 2006 at 10:37 pm

All of your comments are interesting.Ask yourself this.Do you think
anyone living today ,can actually predict what happened on earth
1000 or 100,000 years ago?Millions of people believe we did not go
to the moon in the 60s.Millions have forgotten WW1,2,Nam,my point
is,our life cycle is so brief,we believe only things hear or see,for
such a short period time,its get altered,by others,just like passing on
a joke,and we are no more than a fly on the wall.I truley believe the
earth has been destroyed by our creator many times over,but telling
the world, found a bone in Brazil thats 200 million years old
is absurd

# 128 JWills said, on August 7th, 2006 at 4:21 am

Good example of why places such as Atlantis should never be scoffed at. Imagine a destruction so complete that virtually any minuet evidence is completely destroyed. Imagine our own civilization destroyed so effectivly that houndreds of thousands of years in the future, the mere suggestion that a advanced civilization once existed on earth is laughed at by modern science and skeptics.

# 129 JWills said, on August 7th, 2006 at 4:24 am

Good example of why places such as Atlantis or life Mars should never be scoffed at. Imagine a destruction so complete that virtually any minuet evidence is completely destroyed. Imagine our own civilization destroyed so effectively that hundreds of thousands of years in the future, the mere suggestion that a advanced civilization once existed on earth is laughed at by modern science and skeptics.

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# 131 Henry Garcia said, on April 28th, 2007 at 1:20 pm

On page 229 you cite Mark 16:14-15 to make a case that the Great Commission was dircted only to the apostles. However, verses 9 through 20 are not found in any of the earliest copies of the Bible. Apparently the Roman Catholic Church added those passages sometime later and frankly, I wouldn’t believe abnything the Catholic Church says.