The day the dinosoars died

[summit]

It has been a while since I've lloked closely at that part of the page. I usually just go there to check aurora potentials. That said, this was a pretty close one last week

https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2019%20FC1&orb=1

We didn't even spot that fucker until 1 day AFTER its closest approach. It passed about 60,000 miles away (that's ~1/4 the distance to moon and less than 3x the distance that DirecTV and XMradio satellites orbit at!)

Put another way, if it was going to hit us, our first clue would have been a collosal explosion that could have resulted in the equivalent of up to a 7.5MT hydrogen bomb (500 Hiroshimas) destroying every house within 10mi of impact.

It is 2019 and we had NO idea. Nobody paged Bruce Willis. Only Thailand was safe. Close shave...

[Timberridge]

Only Thailand was safe.

And Fall River.

[PNWbrit]

we had NO idea.

Did you join the Space Force?

[Timberridge]

You just don't join the Space Force. You have to be invited.

[summit]

You just don't join the Space Force. You have to be invited.

I declined the invite... not into being probed. Sent them over to recruit Benny... bet he was more... enthusiastic.

[iceman]

Cover all your bases: https://www.asianhousefr.com

Amazon just opened a big facility in Fall River a year or so ago. No doubt they have inside info and are preparing for the post-asteroid future.

[PNWbrit]

Sent them over to recruit Benny...

They're looking for asteroids experts.

Not hemorrhoids.

[Timberridge]

I declined the invite... not into being probed. Sent them over to recruit Benny... bet he was more... enthusiastic.

Benny's now a Sagittarius A* local?

[Meathelmet]

I declined the invite... not into being probed. Sent them over to recruit Benny... bet he was more... enthusiastic.

Dude. Open your mind. You never know who will probe you...gently?

#whoamitojudge

[Benny Profane]

Adding to the above, an exhausted comet core 1mi in diameter smacking the middle of the Atlantic Ocean would cause major earthquake damage throughout the entire Atlantic coast and a 100ft tsunami that would wipe out every coastal city that survived the earthquake, 100s of millions of deaths.

The crater would only be about 3mi wide.

Make it a smaller 1km comet in the mid Atlantic and you still get a 30ft tsunami throughout the Atlantic coast and a tiny crater the size of a few football fields.

@timberridge Thailand and Cambodia are protected by an Anceint Alien Shield hidden under Angkor Wat. Indiana Jones has been dispatched to recover it for planetary defense.

But the surfers would be excited.

[summit]

Benny's now a Sagittarius A* local?

Yea, but he hasn't made the transition from crusty local to redshifted local... he needs longer... or to elongate.

[Timberridge]

He's light years ahead of us.

[Meathelmet]

Yea, but he hasn't made the transition from crusty local to redshifted local... he needs longer... or to elongate.

I think Benny is going through the redshift, just look at his jacket.

[Jacques Strap]

A classic

[BmillsSkier]

Seems like a good title for a Don McLean song.

A long long time ago
I can still remember how those dinosaurs made me smile

I swear on everything holy that if you motherfuckers so much as quote that song I will burn this whole place to the ground.

[mcski]

Did dinosaurs have jukeboxes?

[riser4]

I swear on everything holy that if you motherfuckers so much as quote that song I will burn this whole place to the ground.

You took the bait. My work here is done.

[SB]

Did dinosaurs have jukeboxes?

It is theorized they did, however they had no pockets and no change to use in said jukeboxes.

Also the song selection was limited to Don McLean songs.

[BmillsSkier]

It is theorized they did,

Also the song selection was limited to Don McLean songs.

I’m sure their mass extinction event was a welcome release then.

[Timberridge]

If the dinosaurs wouldn't have died, we'd have no oil or gas to drive our cars and heat our homes. They died so that we could live in comfort.

Hail the dinosaur.

[summit]

The asteroid caused global cooling. We are just trying to warm the planet back to where it was late Cretaceous! Is that wrong?

Also, O2 might have been 27+% instead of 20.9%, so we'll be able to climb easier at the higher altitudes where snow still exists. Still working on a plan for that...

[Timberridge]

So at 27%, a cigarette or joint wouldn't last nearly as long?

I can't even imagine what the West coast would look like during fire season.

[SumJongGuy]

I swear on everything holy that if you motherfuckers so much as quote that song I will burn this whole place to the ground.

And that will be the day that I die.

[riser4]

Eight miles high and falling fast

[stalefish3169]

Good read. Thanks!

When I was in undergrad I had a Geology prof who taught a class called GEOL 330 "Modern Concepts" or something like that. He was way into the Deccan Flood Basalts over Chicxulub.

https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fullte...4/05/0709-0728

Also, I remember hearing about this when I was at MSU. Thought the TGR crowd would find it amusing. He was sort of an antagonist in the article, but now you creepy old dudes can perhaps view him as a hero.

https://jezebel.com/dinosaur-expert-...ever-u-5879659