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2013-03-25 02:09 5635904 Anonymous (meteorREX2603_468x551.jpg 468x551 37kB)
Which would be more disastrous for mankind. A meteor in the ocean or on hitting land?

7 min later 5635930 Anonymous
The ocean for coastal countries. The land for... well, it won't cause much damage in land.

10 min later 5635937 Anonymous
>>5635904 find "Lucifer's Hammer" by Niven and Pournelle great book

14 min later 5635944 Teacup
As I onced said in response to this exact question: "Water, since meteors are mostly ice, it'd freeze a bunch of water around it and change the climate/kill many animals."

16 min later 5635953 Anonymous
>>5635944 are you a bad troll? anyway, definitely ocean.

18 min later 5635963 Anonymous
>>5635953 Yes, he is a bad troll. He's a mentally ill physics major who has been shitposting on /sci/ since 2011. Unfortunately even for proper trolling he's too uncreative.

20 min later 5635969 Teacup
>>5635953 I'm someone who doesn't abide by the constraints of "science" (which is actually more akin to indoctrination in its modern form) and actually uses his brain to extrapolate information about the world.

32 min later 5636016 Anonymous
>>5635944 0/10

37 min later 5636031 Anonymous (IMG-20121212-WA0000.jpg 480x800 48kB)
>>5635969 How I imagine you look like in real life

40 min later 5636044 Anonymous
>>5636031 Nah, I don't think he'd ever dress up like that. That requires creativity and self-esteem. I'd rather think of him as a pathetic skinny nerd.

42 min later 5636054 Anonymous
Depends on the size eof the meteor

43 min later 5636059 Anonymous
>>5636044 You're a pathetic fat neckbeard who browses /sci/ 24/7.

45 min later 5636066 Teacup
>>5636031 There are some similarities, but I'd never dress in a shirt that gay or use that much hair gel. >>5636044 >That requires creativity and self-esteem >Implying I don't have to be creative to do what I do >Implying that that's not the absolute worst someone could look

46 min later 5636073 Anonymous
>>5636059 Wrong in both points. I'm a rather attractive woman and I don't come here very often.

50 min later 5636093 Anonymous
>>5636073 Everyone is an attractive woman on the internet. What's your point?

51 min later 5636100 Anonymous
How large would a meteor have to be to throw tons of dust and debris into the atmosphere causing a mini ice age?

55 min later 5636110 Anonymous
>>5636066 Yes, you should be very creative for what you do. Except you aren't.

55 min later 5636111 Anonymous
>>5636073 >denial

58 min later 5636118 Teacup
>>5636110 I like how you're backing your claim that I'm uncreative with absolutely no evidence lol :-)

1 hours later 5636133 Anonymous (1358144169448.jpg 367x388 17kB)
>>5636118 All my evidence of you non creativity can be distilled from any one of your comments, "lol" Please stop and migrate to >>>/hm/

1 hours later 5636150 Anonymous
>>5636133 What the fuck is he supposed to do on /hm/? He's not gay and he's not handsome. The only place where he belongs is >>>/pol/ . That's the containment board for braindead cretins.

1 hours later 5636169 Anonymous (armageddon.jpg 940x612 120kB)
http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth

1 hours later 5636171 Anonymous
land, obviously

1 hours later 5636181 Teacup
>>5636133 I have yet to see conclusive evidence of my uncreativity. Something that's not just your opinion. >>5636150 >He's not gay >He's not handsome What next, am I not a tripfriend? Maybe I should move to /hm/, maybe they will be more willing to actually listen to me.

1 hours later 5636189 Anonymous
>>5636181 Of course you're not a trip-"friend". You're a shitposter.

1 hours later 5636205 Anonymous
>>5635944 >meteors are mostly ice It is on fire in the fucking picture. Ice doesn't burn retard.

1 hours later 5636217 Anonymous
It depends what it is made out of. If it is made out of fire and rock like in the pic, then landing in the water would be best for us, since water beats fire and rock.

1 hours later 5636221 Teacup
>>5636205 *Sigh* Why must I explain this constantly? Space is very cold, close to 0K, this causes everything that is in space to get cold too, nearing 0K as well, which means that WHILE THE METEOR MAY START BURNING when ENTERING THE EARTH, it's still very cold, which means it will freeze anything it comes in contact with.

1 hours later 5636240 Anonymous
>>5636221 what about the astronomical amount of kinetic energy the asteroid has?

1 hours later 5636270 Anonymous
>>5636217 you're right. in fact, water gets a double critical against fire/rock, so it SHOULD rocket the meteor back into space, possibly toward that hussie venus.

1 hours later 5636282 Anonymous
>>5636221 its not the meteor that burns, dumbass.

1 hours later 5636287 Anonymous (3k.jpg 400x202 57kB)
>>5636221 >close to 0K doesn't know 'bout mah 3k cosmic background.

1 hours later 5636289 Anonymous
>>5636240 nah

2 hours later 5636322 Anonymous
A land impact would be more disastrous due to the kick-up of dust. Sun gets blocked, photosynthesis goes down, the entire animal kingdom suffers from the decline in food sources and environmental disruption. >meteor is ice which will freeze the ocean Not gonna do the math but if I dropped a 10,000-ton chunk of ice at a temperature of 3K in the ocean it would barely make a dent in the average temperature of the oceans.

2 hours later 5636328 Anonymous
>>5636322 not to mention it heats up like fuck going through the atmosphere.

2 hours later 5636336 Anonymous
>>5636221 Is that demon still behind your television?

2 hours later 5636351 Anonymous
>>5636073 transexual there >>/lgbt/

2 hours later 5636362 Anonymous
>>5636322 what if you dropped a -50K chunck of ice in?

3 hours later 5636387 Anonymous
It depends on the size and location I suppose.

3 hours later 5636432 Anonymous
Land. If it hit the water it will create a massive tsunami that will hurt a lot of people. On land it will throw massive amounts of land into the air as well as more of a shock wavel

3 hours later 5636471 Anonymous
>>5636221 I haven't seen you in a long time teacup I'm one of the people who got cursed by you a long time ago

6 hours later 5636781 Anonymous
How's that curse working out for you?

7 hours later 5636865 Anonymous
>>5635904 There are so many variables to the problem without which a definitive answer cannot be given. What is the size of the asteroid and how fast is it travelling upon impact? Of what material is the asteroid comprised? What is the surface area of the asteroid initially impacting the earth? What is the exact location of impact? Is it in a valley? A desert? Shallow water? Which ocean? If the surface area of the initial impact is smaller than an adjacent side and the asteroid rolls as a result then what is the surface area of the secondary impact and at what speed does it impact the earth? What is the location of the moon? What season is it? There are a lot of variables.

8 hours later 5636897 Anonymous
>>5636093 he/she isn't the one who brought it up in the first place

8 hours later 5636947 Anonymous
>>5636221 A 10 km asteroid, which is an asteroid I am going to assume is a good size if this is an argument, has a mass of roughly 1.3 trillion tons. An asteroid traveling in the vicinity of Earth is going to have a velocity ~20km/s (low end of the scale mind you). 1.3 trillion tons.... 20km/s.... That is equivalent to 2.5 x 10^23 J of energy. I dont give a shit what temperature the object is hitting at, it will make it's own temperature. You must be retarded?

11 hours later 5637096 Anonymous
>>5636362 You would break the universe because that is completely impossible.

11 hours later 5637098 Anonymous
>>5636471 Who is this crazy fuck?

11 hours later 5637105 Anonymous
>>5637098 One of an Elite corps of Trolls... EK, Harriet, Rose, and Teacup, among others, perhaps Liberty.

11 hours later 5637113 Anonymous
>>5636947 Answer: >>5636865

11 hours later 5637137 Anonymous
>>5637105 >Teacup >elite troll Just no. That's like calling Stephen Hawking an olympic sprinter.

11 hours later 5637147 Anonymous
>>5637137 So he is genuinely crazy then? >>5636471 What? >>5636336 Also what?

11 hours later 5637149 Anonymous
>>5637147 >So he is genuinely crazy then? Yeah, but not crazy in the psychotic sense. He's not a crackpot and he doesn't believe the shit he's posting. He's more like an emotionally hurt child. His whole shitposting spree started in a butthurt attempt to imitate EK. Check the archives from 2011

12 hours later 5637150 Anonymous
>>5637137 I'm sure Hawking could manage an Olympic team if he so chose. But that's neither here nor there. I did not say Teacup was the Mastermind, that is one of the EK's.

12 hours later 5637156 Anonymous
>>5637149 Link please.

12 hours later 5637163 Anonymous
>>5637156 http://archive.installgentoo.net/sc i/ Search for his tripcode.

12 hours later 5637168 Anonymous
>>5637163 >being this autistic

12 hours later 5637171 Anonymous
>>5637168 >shitposting tripfag >accusing others of being "autistic" oh the irony

12 hours later 5637175 Anonymous
>>5637168 I'm neurotypical and I find it mildly interesting.

13 hours later 5637209 Anonymous
depends which ocean it hit. indian? lol who cares atlantic? shit is bad, son pacific, lots will die depending on where it hits land? depending on how big it is... worst possible scenario what if a meteor hits the super volcano in north america and while exploding and causing shit tons of damage, the volcano also erupted and caused shit tons of damage critical hit! earth was knocked out!

20 hours later 5637976 Anonymous
questions of this sort are fun, but drawing attention to them at the expense of addressing more immediate threats like global warming is wasteful and dangerous. just saiyan.

21 hours later 5638082 Anonymous (Big-Al_sml.jpg 905x698 66kB)
>immediate threats like global warming m(

21 hours later 5638084 Anonymous
>>5637171 >you >not a shitposter oh the irony

22 hours later 5638237 Anonymous
>>5638082 I like how said e-mails came to light through wikileaks and then right after the right wing media started raging on wikileaks claiming nothing good ever came out of them.

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