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   9/15/07

   crkian

   Fantastic - How to create your own Death Star

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      9/15/07

      gosmelltheflowers

      LOL!
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   9/15/07

   djumbox

   So I'm not gonna live forever? Sh*t !

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      9/15/07

      urikalish

      Not with our ignore-it-and-it-will-probably-go-away attitude.
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      9/15/07

      urikalish

      And regarding the living forever thing...
      urikalish.blogspot.com/2007/08/forever-young.html
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   9/15/07

   clioandme

   Cool graphics on the film. I know the possibility of a major catastrophe exists, but how good is the science behind the detailed descriptions of the hour-by-hour developments? Urikalish, presumably you are basing your comments on more than just this video. Want to try filling us in?

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      9/15/07

      urikalish

      You might wanna start with this:
      urikalish.blogspot.com/2007/06/doomsday-rock-coming-your-way-at-15.html
      
      p.s. What exactly do you wanna know?
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      9/15/07

      clioandme

      I was just curious how accurate this video might be. I do know that scientists think about it. I've just never seen a scenario spelled out in such precise detail.
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   9/15/07

   covertmetaphor

   There seems to be evidence this sort of thing has happened before...cataclysmic cycles and what not.

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      9/15/07

      urikalish

      It did happen many times before.
      It will happen again for sure.
      Will we discover it before it's too late?
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   9/15/07

   kariknapp

   Oooh. Cool video. And this will kill us even faster...
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray_burst
   You know, if your kind of worry-about-it-and-it-will-never-happen attitude need some fuel.

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      9/15/07

      urikalish

      Yes, this too
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   9/15/07

   covertmetaphor

   I think it will happen regardless of what we'll do. Unless we figure out a way to vacate this planet beforehand.

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      9/15/07

      urikalish

      urikalish.blogspot.com/2007/06/doomsday-rock-coming-your-way-at-15.html
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      9/15/07

      urikalish

      Regarding these rocks, there are things to do (follow the link), but we must act years or even decades before the impact time.
      
      But you are right. No matter how we'll deal with these dangerous rocks, eventually we'll have to leave the solar system (the sun will die in a few billion years), and maybe even our entire Milky Way galaxy (the expected collision with the Andromeda galaxy).
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   9/16/07

   jungl

   Wicked video!
   
   Oh how I want to learn Japanese.

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      9/16/07

      clioandme

      Yeah, the narrator made what was happening sound almost like a good thing. I wonder how it comes across to someone who understands the language.
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      9/16/07

      urikalish

      Maybe it's their revenge on the U.S. for August 1945.
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      9/16/07

      clioandme

      Well, it seems to follow in that Godzilla tradition.
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   9/16/07

   plusultra

   The world ends for each of us the day we die. Everything else (science,religion,Politics...) is mere speculation (except for taxes of course.)

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   9/16/07

   Manictastic

   I would so not want to live far away form the impact site. It would mean you would know you where going to die and just had to sit waiting outside looking at the clouds to see if your end is near yet.

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    9/16/07

    beingplayed1234

    END THE WORLD NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    9/16/07

    CreativeBlogger

    The powers that be are capable of making us believe anything they want to and the people involved too.
    
    It's a good way of putting huge sums of money in the 'disatser fund'.
    
    For example:
    Let's tell the world that we have evidence of an alien threat and we need billions of $'s to set up a alien defence program. Kaboom, the money goes on the fictitious alien defence program. Do we question the legitimacy of the alien threat or just hope that the defence works? Well, it seems to work as we have not been invaded by aliens. And so on and so forth. It also stops us worrying about other things that are going on in reality.

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       9/16/07

       urikalish

       1. The sum of money invested in the defense against these doomsday rocks is ridiculous.
       
       2. It's not just another scare-them-so-they'll-pay thing.
       It did happen before.
       It does happen all the time.
       It will happen again.
       en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
       neo.jpl.nasa.gov/images/meteorcrater.html
       www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mbA606ZRWI
       www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSVJEdZ1Jkc
       www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5jSNnitGNM
       www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCiebKpueAM
       www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fYHJKWMAfU
       www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o79lriMRiE
       and I don’t even wanna mention what happened 65 million years ago…