That was so awesome. Now i want a real one to hit earth!Zerocrossings

Screw an asteroid, let's push the moon into the earth!

[QUOTE="xXSecksXx"]If that were to happen, Can't we just launch like 500000000 nukes from all countries across the world to lock onto that thing and blow it to bits in space?markop2003

there would proberbly still be a disaster if it was blown to pieces at regular ICBM range, we could make it work if we did a glancing shot way away from the earth so we could knock it off course

We would have to break the no nuclear arms in space treaty if we were to do it, and I'm sure arguments would arise about who would be the one to shoot off the nuke. Not to mention, if the asterioid is very porous (many holes, kinda like pumice), the blast would simply be absorbed by it, accomplishing nothing.

[QUOTE="LikeHaterade"]

[QUOTE="Saturos3091"][QUOTE="DivergeUnify"][QUOTE="Saturos3091"]Scary thoughts, and it's happened four times already? Well, it's bound to happen again sometime...hopefully not anytime soon. Also, life has managed to persist after each of those times, so it's possible that there'd still be some hope.
DivergeUnify

From what I heard, I think that there was going to be some kind of gravity gun that would be used to knock an asteroid off it's projected path if there was one heading for earth.

Actually, he's right, although it's not a "gravity gun" as he calls it. Remember that every object has its own gravitational field. You, me, the earth, and even a ladybug outside. All we have to do is put a satellite up near an asteroid heading towards us and let it gently tug on the asteroid. Over 30-50 years, it might move it all of a millimeter, although that would be all it would take. A millimeter stretched across billions and billions of miles ends up being quite a different trajectory.

Plus, to ease anyone's worries, if I recall correctly congress passed something that says NASA's supposed to have tracked most of the fairly large near earth asteroids within a few years. That'll hopefully give us some warning so we can do something about one on a collision course with earth.

Idk really, but I really hope I'd find out indirectly rather then directly.peeviness

Indirectly? Oh god, I can see it now:

*fap* *fap* *fap*

Wait a second, I know that chick...

HOLY **** THAT'S MY ****** DAUGHTER!

*fap* *fap* *fap*

[QUOTE="Video_Game_King"][QUOTE="Kikouken"][QUOTE="KingLouisXVIII"]

Ring-and-ring-a-roses

A pocket full of posies

A-tishoo, A-tishoo,

We all fall down.

This is an old English nursery-rhyme, you probably know of it. What you may not know is that the rhyme has it's origins in the 1400s, when the Black Death was sweeping throughout Europe, killing thousands. The first symptons of the plague was a red rash on the skin, which formed in rings. Back then, people weren't as smart, so they believed that diseases were causes by bad smells rather than the germs that the smells accompanied. So they would carry a posy of flowers with them to ward off the smells, and sometimes to disguise their own diseased scent. Another symptom was coughs and sneezing, this marked the stage where you were unlikely to ever recover. I'm sure you can work out the rest yourself.

KLAX42

Yeah, my music teacher told me about that. Pretty creepy.

I think we all know this. And "atishoo, atishoo"? The way I learned it, it was "ashes, ashes".

Same here, I thought he was talking about a different poem at first.

Ditto. I'm also used to the beginning being "ring around the rosie." Wiki has a bunch of different versions, and even claims that it has nothing to do with the plague (the rhyme didn't appear untill the late 1700's at the earliest).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o%27_Roses

God, if I wanted the OT's watered down with politics, I would have gone to

www.thisofftopicforumsucksbecauseofcraploadsofpointlessthreads.com

dday2121

Fix the link, I got an address not found error.

[QUOTE="olion"]

I deny it's a fact. As stated, it's a theory, not a fact. There is no way to prove 100% that it is correct.

However, many people often think a theory is any random idea thrown out there, which is a hypothesis. Theories are hypotheses (sp?) that have been proven by loads of evidence, peer reviewed by countless people in the field, and generally fit as a good answer to the problem.

There's always the possibility that something comes up which forces us to change the theory.

Funky_Llama

There's no way to prove that anything is 100% correct, technically speaking.

Which is why they're always referred to as scientific theories. Even gravity is a theory. No matter how many times you drop an object, you cannot say with 100% confidence that the object will fall when released.

I'm just saying the TC is incorrect, since Evolution is in no way a fact.