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Collision with Mars?

Frayed Knot
Dec 22 2007 04:14 PM

An asteroid said to be "50 meters wide" [url=http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-12-22-voa19.cfm]is headed towards Mars[/url] and has about a "1 in 75 chance" of colliding with that planet on or about January 30th.

That'll give us something to watch out for while waiting for spring training.

Benjamin Grimm
Dec 22 2007 04:29 PM

That would be very cool!

And informative, too. It would give us an idea of what the result would be if something like that hit the Earth.

I hope it happens.

1 in 75 may seem like slim odds, but the Mets had considerably slimmer odds of missing the playoffs in mid-September this year.

Frayed Knot
Dec 23 2007 08:58 PM

"I hope it happens"

Oh hell yeah ya gotta root for this. It'll be way better than the comet that got sucked into Jupiter.
NASA better program that microwave over-sized rover they got up there to duck and hide.




"And informative, too. It would give us an idea of what the result would be if something like that hit the Earth."

It would be similar, supposedly, to the one that crash landed in Siberia just about a century ago, leveling thousands of acres of trees as it did.
Could have been alot of dead people had it hit somewhere other than Siberia.

Nymr83
Dec 31 2007 02:28 PM

odds have increased to 1 in 25 according to something i sawon foxnews today.

i'm rooting for a crash, it'll be fun.

Edgy DC
Dec 31 2007 04:31 PM

Frayed Knot
Jan 01 2008 07:20 AM

Nymr83 wrote:
odds have increased to 1 in 25 according to something i saw on fox news today.


They also linked the increase to Hillary Clinton.

MFS62
Jan 01 2008 08:09 AM

Frayed Knot wrote:
="Nymr83"]odds have increased to 1 in 25 according to something i saw on fox news today.


They also linked the increase to Hillary Clinton.


ding ding ding
Already in the running for best post of 2008.

Later

AG/DC
Jan 11 2008 09:31 AM

Not going to happen.

TheOldMole
Jan 11 2008 12:07 PM

Have you heard? It's in the stars
Next July we collide with Mars.

Well, did you evah?

What a swell party this is!

AG/DC
Jan 11 2008 12:10 PM

Miss the Mole.