Planet-killer meteor video: holy snikes!

[zridling]

The Japanese have made an animation what would happen if Earth would be hit with a "planet-killer" meteor. Interesting, as long as it doesn't interrupt my internet connection.

        http://youtube.com/watch?v=3JHdYBet_4Q&search=Meteorite%20Collision
       

[mouser]

Interesting, as long as it doesn't interrupt my internet connection.

[Gothi[c]]

That's not a planet killer if you ask me. The planet seemed very much alive after impact. Only them annoying little things that used to live on it weren't. It's like a planet-pest-control thing.

[Rover]

I must be getting used to Hollywood effects; the video looked pretty silly to me.

The asteroid looked to be about the size of the USA.  I really don't think I care to know the exact details of that type of collision; I'll just assume I'll be dead shortly after impact.

[y0himba]

It would take a much smaller meteor to remove life on this planet.  Not only that, but a meteor that size would crack the Earth, intorduce a planetary wobble, and cause rings of debris aournd the planet.  The gravitational effects prior to strike would be devastating alone.

[mouser]

Only them annoying little things that used to live on it weren't. It's like a planet-pest-control thing.

[nudone]

yeah, but Bruce Willis will save us - just like he did before.

[JavaJones]

Some pretty cool animation in parts of that actually. It was a bit inconsistent with some parts looking rather hokey, but at the same time it's a really difficult thing to depict "realistically" - none of us have a frame of reference.

- Oshyan

[Gothi[c]]

Some scientists have been saying that, eventually the moon will drop on us.
- or they used to anyways. It seems now they are saying it's moving away from earth. They never make up their mind, do they.

[JavaJones]

No, but at least scientists tend not to be insisting on something that clearly isn't so... most of the time.

- Oshyan

[Carol Haynes]

All satellites slow down in their orbit (from tidal influences - which include small attractions to other planets, esp. Jupiter and Saturn, and the Sun) and so eventually gravity will take its toll and they will come down with a crash - don't wait on yer roof with a pair of binoculars though