Monty by Jim Meddick for August 09, 2013
August 08, 2013
August 10, 2013
Transcript:
I'm off to scan the heavens for NEO's... Massive asteroids with unstable orbits that, if caught in Earth's gravity, could strike our planet with the force of 1x10 megatons. Good luck. Oh, @#$#$! Oh, @#$@%! Oh... This is your raisin, I presume.
stlmaddog5 almost 11 years ago
If one does hit, let’s hope Washington D.C. is ground zero.
Sisyphos almost 11 years ago
Near-Earth Orbit object or raisin? That is the question. Can a cybot wet its pants (if it had pants)?
hometownk Premium Member almost 11 years ago
I didn’t know machines could get scared.
tattooedcyberidiot almost 11 years ago
EB found there was no currant threat to Earth
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Tattooed…..So we have no raisin to be afraid??
_vecihi_ almost 11 years ago
Calm down, no need to be raisin people’s fears.
SwimsWithSharks almost 11 years ago
Presume nothing, robot. That raisin might be from outer space!
Strod almost 11 years ago
1×10^8 megatons would be 2 million Tsar Bombas. That number just doesn’t seem right.
stamps almost 11 years ago
It is estimated that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was 1 × 10 to the 13th (100 trillion) tons of TNT, which resulted in extinction of about 80% of the species on Earth at that time. So EB is talking about one that would be 10 times worse. Not likely anything more than bacteria would survive.
Varnes almost 11 years ago
Hey, that’s a grape discovery….
Coyoty Premium Member almost 11 years ago
EB is prune to overreacting.
racerxyz almost 11 years ago
It’s 10^8 Megatons vs. 10^13 Tons. Mega = 10^6. 10^8 Megatons = 10^(6+8=14) Tons.