Huge asteroid that 'could end human life' defying gravity as it moves towards Earth, scientists sa

If it hits the moon you owe me a non alcoholic malt beverage.

If it hits the moon you owe me a non alcoholic malt beverage.


Make that two

16th march 2880? dammit i have an important business appointment on that day in my rolodex! typical!

Okay Mr Bunny. I have consulted the elder Rabbit Council deep in the Earth and asked their advice for this calamitous event which shall befall us all.

They thought, and they pondered, and they chomped on carrots for awhile then stopped and huddled. Dunno what all they said...but when they all hopped back to their tall chairs and took their seats in the council, they had something to suggest.

They said (lowers voice) we have many many generations of bunnies to work, and with more nightclubs, they noted, we can get even more bunnies eventually! Kinda weird on that, I know..but they insisted I include it. Then they spoke slowly and said we needed to build giant engines on the equator in Africa and the Americas! With these giant engines, we can speed up our planet juuuust enough on it's orbit so we will be (they figured) 3.2781 planet widths away from where that big thing will pass harmlessly by.

I bet robin williams is sitting on the asteroid driving it and giggling

a reply to: Wrabbit2000

I'm glad you talked with the council and the Grand Lepus. He's still angry because I talked him into getting that Justin Beiber tattoo.

I like the idea.

My solution was going to be giant gas bags, but I couldn't guarantee that the politicians would show up!

There's the old adage that if it won't matter in a hundred years who's going to care.
In eight hundred and sixty six years, it really won't matter.
To us anyway.
Pity the folks that are around then though, they will have a really bad day.......

originally posted by: ketsuko

originally posted by: beezzer

originally posted by: Tardacus

sooo, we only have 866 years to develop the means to stop it?

Call me an optimist but I think we can do, GO TEAM!

(beezzer furiously thinking of a solution)



. . . . . . aaaaand I got nothing.



Crap.



You?

Well, I got of the phone with this guy from NASA. He assures me that if they build enough little satellites that can land on the asteroid and deploy these mylar sails that solar winds will be caught by the mylar sails ...



Yeah, I thought it sounded crappy, too.



I think this sounds like a much better approach.

And if that fails ... we can always build large wooden badgers ...

More meanness, totally uncalled for. Why you keep hating on the bunnies?

As for me, I normally throw rocks at bunnies, I don't throw bunnies at rocks, that is just wrong. And its hard to toss the bunny accurately, dam ears keep catching the wind and deflecting the toss.

You are saying throw beeezer at it? Or was that wrabbit? Hell I dunno, all dem bunnies look the same to me.

Anyways, I don't care that doom is coming, I gots a garden to harvest, and dam waskelly critters done been in the carrots and lettuce again, if I got's any ammo left, dey won't be no rabbits left to toss at rocks in the air.

originally posted by: randyvs
a reply to: beezzer

A Beezer thread? I sit up and take notice.

I nominate Beezer new king of porn!
I mean doom porn!

You were probably RiGht tHe firST tImE!!

lol

a reply to: Cynic

Nah...by then they will have a phaser that they can zap the asteroid with from the Enterprise!

Wait!

I got it!

I know what we should do! Everyone break out some quarters!!!!!

What gets me is this Van Der Waals force is supposed to be so small it's mostly invisible to us. And yet gecko's use it to climb walls and THAT's visible. And now an asteroid usess the effect to stick together. So apparenlty this effect isn't so small after all?

Will we be using htis effect to walk on walls? No so small?

I get the same feeling when someone tells me a magnet isn't doing work when it's holding onto a fridge. I know there's science behind the concept of work and a magnet isn't doing work, but it's still confusing. Same thing with this. It's supposed to be so small we don't normally see it, but here we're seeing an asteroid (3000 ft di) held together by it.

a reply to: jonnywhite

Van der Waals force:

It is also sometimes used loosely as a synonym for the totality of intermolecular forces. Van der Waals forces are relatively weak compared to covalent bonds, but play a fundamental role in fields as diverse as supramolecular chemistry, structural biology, polymer science, nanotechnology, surface science, and condensed matter physics. Van der Waals forces define many properties of organic compounds, including their solubility in polar and non-polar media.

Just a couple of thoughts.Its been only a hundred years since the Wright brothers.In 800 at that rate we should have something so technologically advanced we probably couldn't imagine today.But not to spoil Beezers fun continued NASA budget cuts 800 years from now would leave them about $20 to build such a system.We are doomed!

I thought it was going to be sooner?

In 800 yeats time either:

A) we will be extinct
B) reverted back to pre industry or in some mad max free for all due to civilisation collapse
C) so far ahead with tec zapping it a million miles from earth with a giant laser will be the best solution.

Either makeing plans now is abit pointless

a reply to: beezzer

I can't seem to fit this into any prophecy whatsoever?
To hell with google! But what the hell the songs still
cool.

a reply to: lakesidepark

Are you, sir, implying that either beezer or Wrabbit are wooden? *gasp*

I always thought they were more like this:



or maybe this:



Although, I'm not sure which one is Bigwig and which one is General Woundwort.

originally posted by: crazyewok
In 800 yeats time either:

A) we will be extinct
B) reverted back to pre industry or in some mad max free for all due to civilisation collapse
C) so far ahead with tec zapping it a million miles from earth with a giant laser will be the best solution.

Either makeing plans now is abit pointless

We already are in a Mad Max free for all due to civilisation collapse, at least we are if you're in the Middle East thanks to "ISIL".

a reply to: beezzer

What?? What? 2880? Is that date correct? If so, WHO GIVES A CRAP?? By the year 2880 if we are still here we'll have the technology to completely vaporize the whole thing instantly, or just teleport the damn thing to another galaxy. It won't even be news to us in 2880. No one will care, or even know what we did to it.