are we better prepared to overcome an impact similar to jupiter where 3 earth-sized fragments "comets shoemaker" hit several years ago? It could happen to us. the world powers should plan for this ahead. they should set aside differences this time for common good. we need to be united to accomplish this. everybody must be concerned because everybody is at risk. please help disseminate. the life you are saving will be your own as well as the entire human race.
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I have first time heard about the idea and really want to appreciate this but it is pain full that world powers are not interested in it because we have not heard about that in fact they are preparing how to overcome others.
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ok there are solar flares that reach us but earth's magnetic field sort of protects us.\nso what we need is a combo of some sort\nso how about we go for\nEarth's magnetic pole flipping\nSolar flare(big) or solar increase\nMeteor\nComet\nput them all in the blender and mix\n\nso at the same time the magnetic pole flips\nthe field will drop to zero(not sure on how long)\nat this time a solar flare hits us making the entire sky look like the northern lights(very beautiful at sun set)\nbecause the atmosphere starts to ionize.\nand on the night side a comet heading straight for earth\nbut the comet is over taken by a large meteor that smashes the comet creating a lot of small comets of ice and rock and one mostly untouched meteor about 150-200km or larger in diameter. the meteor can crash in the middle of the pacific right on top of hawaii taking it out and creating a large tsunami that kills most of the people in the costal areas. then the ice covered meteors from the comet will at some time over the next 48 hours end up taking out most of the major urban centers of the world and the farms as well.\nalso the ensuing earthquakes can completely teraform the landscape in to a more mountainous terrain.\nand the electro magnetic serge caused by the solar flare launches all of the armaments across the globe at random GPS co-ordinates.(nuklear, chemical, biological, ETC...)\n\nhows that for a disaster waiting to happen.
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I worry more about mass extinction events like an asteroid impact or finding out that giant aliens have just been raising humanity as a food source to harvest en masse. Bird flu might do a job on us or some alien organism brought back by space exploration which our bodies are unable to manufacture antibodies. Maybe global nuclear conflict will leave the earth a smoking glow-in-the-dark beacon rotating and wobbling in the solar system. Excuse me I have to go find my aluminum foil hat to block the gamma rays. Wait what if planet Jupiter is a brown dwarf star and decides to go nova? What if the sun flames out? What if the magma in the earth's crust makes the poles flip positions? .........
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I would say the earth needs less energy to heal, wouldn't you? Anyway I don't think there's a coincidence there. Lot's of things happen on random similar dates. After all, there's only 365 of them, plus one every four years. That's not really incredible odds.
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Wow, interesting article.  Possibly one of the best-written and moth truthful ones I have seen.  It's amazing how well people have hushed up the most recent climatological results which indicate a plateau in global temperatures.\n\nAs they noted at the end of the article, I think it's time we gave up on this misguided effort to "reduce man-made CO2", and start worrying about real issues like shortages of drinking water and environmental pollution.\n\nClimate fluctuations are part of the earth cycle- and we honestly don't understand enough about they systems and their interactions to have any idea how we could possibly effect it.  But the science is in:  this happens ALL the time in earth history, and it's pretty arrogant of us to think that this time it's our fault!
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many believe that the advances in weapons technology have created a ticking time bomb that, upon detonation, will ultimately result in the destruction of the earth.\n\nif people don't do something to "end the world," the sun will eventually expand, consuming the planet.\n\nbut perhaps by that point, our world won't be limited to the earth, and we'll be indifferent to the catastrophe.
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Do a search for Edgar Cayce, he gives a very detailed info. Below is some info about Edagr Cayce from a reponse I gave to a different group.\n\nHello, I know some people that as you, are confused about  religion. I being a man of science have struggled with this for many years . I have been carring on a forum with other science guys about this topic and I thought you might want to look over my last response. If direction is what you require, check this out. Do a search for Edgar Cayce and try getting some of his material. After going over his stuff I had to change may opinion, no matter how smart I thought I was, the proof is too strong. Just look over it and make your own decision about which path to take.\n\n\nHey guys I want to clarify about my email concerning 12-21-2012. \n\nA lot of you thought I was talking about the end of the world. After I looked at what I wrote I guess it could be viewed as that but that is not what I meant. \n \nThe message was actually about science proving what has been predicted. \n\nIf you looked at the stuff in the email you will see that all these different entities have foretold of a major event that they say will happen in 2012.\n\nNOW, If you look at the stuff on the NASA website you can see everything that was predicted beginning to unfold.\n\n I don't think it will be the end of the world but it is kind of amazing that these profits all said 2012 and that it would be a pole shift, force shift, ect. \n\nNOW NASA is saying the same thing, that planet Earth maybe facing a pole shift in 2012.\n\n If this happens then that would be very bad. We are talking about tidal waves, volcanoes, earthquakes. Worst of all from what they are saying, this will knock out all computer chips. \n\nWhat is even more interesting is that what Edgar Cayce says about this. He is the world’s most accurate profit. \n\nFrom the scientific studies of him and by his own account and observations all his predictions did not come from him. He actually knew nothing of what he said because he said it in his SLEEP. He would talk in his sleep when he was asked a question and he would wake up and know nothing about what he said or what he was asked.\n\n Actually he could not have known anything about what he said because he only had a 2nd grade education.\n\n When he was asked in his sleep where this information came from he answered that it was coming from his soul. \n\nThe scientists that studied him called it his subconscious\n\nAny how, he gave very detailed and accurate info about anything you asked him in his sleep from where to find a lost watch to the purpose of life. \n\nHe said very interesting things that only strengthen and prove the existence of GOD.\n He also described how every GOD based religion fit together and that every single person is linked, related by the soul or God’s energy. \n\nHe gave 14,000 readings. Most all of them have been documented, studied and verified as true.\n\n He said things that no one could know like for example, \nhe said that the Pyramids were built in 10,000 b.c. instead of  200 b.c. \nHistorians always say that the pyramids were built by the Egyptians but in 10,000 b.c the Egyptians were not around.\n\n He was asked for proof this and he said that the pyramids were constructed to point and line up directly with the three stars in the constellation of Orion’s belt. Just recently by way of computers scientists have found this to be true but only if you set the computer program to show the sky over the pyramids in the time of 10,000 b.c.\n\n He also said that a great hall of records of these very ancient people that were way more advanced then us \n(people that built the pyramids) was hidden under the left foot of the great Sphinx (The Half Man Half Cat Statue). Just recently sound wave technology has proven that there is indeed a camber under that foot but they can’t get to it because they will have to destroy the statue. \n\nHe described many surgical procedures about ho
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Well the sun doesn't become a red giant for a while so maybe we've made some friends by then and can go hang out near their home planet if it hasn't also been ruined.  It is likely that we will be much better at terraforming and travel so hoping over to a good canidate planet where we wouldn't be destroying life that already existed there shouldn't be too difficult a task.
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Yes, alas, all things must eventually come to an end, especially the good things. Earth will indeed be destroyed eventually by some asteroid with our name on it. One such asteroid has been found: 99942 Apophis, which we still dont know if it will indeed strike the Earth in 2036. But, it isnt the proverbial dinosaur killer, its only 820 feet across, a peanut compared to others that have hit. But, yes, we could terraform Mars and turn it into another Earth, the way it was so many thousands of years ago. I mean, we can grow food hydroponically, create our own little magnetosphere, and create the feeling or effect of gravity. The problem with terraformation is that we have no idea how long it would take, estimates have ranged from half a decade to an amount that is not realistic. Yes, we would go there by spaceship unless the Gov. reveals its Stargate program or some other means of transport. I would assume that a large majority of people would go, but there are always gonna be the fanatics and those who would rather die where they were born. And, you cant realistically transport EVERY human off the planet unless we had many, many, many decades of warning, which we may not have. Sorry to be pessmistic about it, but the numbers just dont really work out in our favor unless we have the benefit of time. But, I would imagine that a majority of the people would make it off, because I would assume that in that realisation, costs would be waived. And imagine the chaos that would grip the globe! But its all very possible to do, we could go right now if we wanted to. And for those who didnt go... It would not look pretty. We're talking about water being flashboiled, tons and tons of rock and ash being thrown into the atmo. if the initial blast doesnt kill you the ensuing volcanic nuclear winter would. Crops would be destroyed and we've learned that nothing with a body weight of over 60 lbs made it through the last ice age. Those who stay behind... Their future would be very grim.
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By the time that happens the Earth will have already been destroyed by the sun. But if the Earth was still around, it is highly unlikely that we would collide with any matter at all, since space is mostly just dust and emptiness, believe it or not. We would likely have a higher-than-usual amount of dust moving about the solar system, however.
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First off, as others have said, the physics of Apophis are well known now.  At the time, however, the asteriod was too far away to get the accurate measurements needed to determine it's trajectory.  But within a couple of days they DID get the measurements.  No, Apophis will not hit in 2029.  There is a miniscule chance (1:45000) it may hit in 2036, but we'll know decades before and there IS something we can do about it.  On the flip side, there will be a day when Apophis will hit us if we do nothing.  It's only a matter of time.\n\nIf, however, the Earth was going to go and there wasn't a thing that could be done about it, who would want to know?  Civilization would disintegrate - no one would go to work crime would be rampant, and things would be horrific long before the asteroid hit.  No government would tell us.  \n\nPersonally, I wouldn't want to know my family was going to die without any hope.
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If we dont pull our fingers out and start doing the right thing surviving will be a definate struggle, I mean it is a struggle already for many people of the World.\nIt seems we are spiralling down the road of destruction but we can make a difference to change that.\nIt starts with us all.
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earth is a living thing man, it is still not stable, but you have to look at it in time frames... we've only been here for so long.. it was stable for the dinousaurs for a while.. at least before it got hit with a comet, it had to go back and fix itself
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No. But there will be one that comes pretty damn close. If you use a search engine like Yahoo! you can find out about the near miss that happend not too long ago (I think around November 1998). It was never on the news for good reason.  But we had a close call that could have wiped us all out. Check it out. Its very interesting. The site even give you a scale to show the asteroids proximity to earth, its course and what day it will pass by again. Hope that helps.
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To the world (the planet)? Then it is probably that we're heading toward another ice age if that meteor doesn't hit us.\n\nTo the world (People)? Then it's probably the planet -- it will get us all in the end, earthquakes, floods, famines, plagues, disease, superbugs... we have the present vanity of thinking we have caused problems and so we can solve them -- that we have control or the upper hand. Nope, sorry. We don't, we could solve the global warming and then hey, throw a Nuclear War or die from antibiotic-resistant superbugs, Mad Cow disease or Bird Flu!\n\nTo the world (culture/history)?  Then the answer is digital communication -- vinyl is dead, magnetic tape lives forever but the machines are dead, CDs are rotting, formats change and we lose data -- will there be anything for future archaeologists to dig up?  For a communication age, I don;t see photos, letters or even music as surviving more than a generation.  All our libraries will vanish under a computer supervirus in 2020! Arrgh!
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are they sure that it will hit earth in that year? Maybe it will hit earth much later, or maybe they'll find a way to stop it. I don't know, the size, but asteroids sure are large, but maybe it'll be just a small collision that the earth will not split up and humankind will not be...destroyed.
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Good question but I have to say that messing with the universe is rather impulsive and risky. Perhaps we should look to simpler projects like over population or world peace?\n\n*wink*