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Re: DIY SF

by mimus <tinmimus99@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 27, 2007 at 02:54 PM

On Sun, 27 May 2007 17:56:48 +0000, David M. Palmer wrote:

> In article <4658C8C3.30803@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Sea Wasp
> <seawaspObvious@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> lal_truckee wrote:
>>
>> > mimus wrote:
>> > 
>> >> OK, a couple dozen quarter-mile-wide steel balls just fell from
outer
>> >> space onto the Earth, and that was that, nothing else.
>> > 
>> > Doesn't matter to us - we're gone.
>> 
>>  I don't think so. Minor damage. Takes a lot more than that to kill us 
>> off.
> 
> If no-one has mentioned it, here's a good site
> http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/
> At typical asteroid velocity of 17 km/s, each impact is only about 10
> gigatonne .  Seismics would be like a Richter 6.6.

Having "a couple dozen" 6.6s go off at once or even over a few days
doesn't sound too good, does it?

Not to mention I'm pretty sure any ocean hits would be Tsunami City.

This seems to be turning into just another lousy disaster flick, when
what I was really wanting to stress was the giant steelies.

Maybe we should change it to "a couple dozen quarter-mile-wide steel balls
just showed up one day around the planet" . . . .

-- 
tinmimus99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 11 or maybe 12

mp 10

mhm 29x13

You want a job and a lizard to ride?

< _The Einstein Intersection_
 




 31 Posts in Topic:
DIY SF
mimus <tinmimus99@[EMA  2007-05-26 12:56:06 
Re: DIY SF
nebusj-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2007-05-26 13:02:26 
Re: DIY SF
dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (D  2007-05-26 13:54:09 
Re: DIY SF
mimus <tinmimus99@[EMA  2007-05-26 17:27:00 
Re: DIY SF
Gene Ward Smith <gene@  2007-05-26 18:46:27 
Re: DIY SF
Joe Bednorz <invalid@[  2007-05-26 14:24:11 
Re: DIY SF
Sea Wasp <seawaspObvio  2007-05-26 15:46:55 
Re: DIY SF
"Mike Schilling"  2007-05-28 20:48:36 
Re: DIY SF
lal_truckee <lal_truck  2007-05-26 15:28:27 
Re: DIY SF
Sea Wasp <seawaspObvio  2007-05-26 19:54:43 
Re: DIY SF
Don Bruder <dakidd@[EM  2007-05-26 17:19:37 
Re: DIY SF
goldfarb@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2007-05-27 03:16:57 
Re: DIY SF
Don Bruder <dakidd@[EM  2007-05-26 21:10:44 
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dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (D  2007-05-27 00:25:46 
Re: DIY SF
Don Bruder <dakidd@[EM  2007-05-26 22:38:18 
Re: DIY SF
Kay Shapero <kay@[EMAI  2007-05-29 07:37:43 
Re: DIY SF
dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (D  2007-05-27 00:23:15 
Re: DIY SF
"David M. Palmer&quo  2007-05-27 17:56:48 
Re: DIY SF
mimus <tinmimus99@[EMA  2007-05-27 14:54:30 
Re: DIY SF
Sea Wasp <seawaspObvio  2007-05-27 15:11:53 
Re: DIY SF
lal_truckee <lal_truck  2007-05-27 16:51:40 
Re: DIY SF
mimus <tinmimus99@[EMA  2007-05-27 21:28:32 
Re: DIY SF
Sea Wasp <seawaspObvio  2007-05-28 08:42:46 
Re: DIY SF
mimus <tinmimus99@[EMA  2007-05-28 11:47:44 
Re: DIY SF
David McMillan <spamtr  2007-05-29 08:12:00 
Re: DIY SF
"Gary R. Schmidt&quo  2007-05-27 14:23:42 
Re: DIY SF
Gerry Quinn <gerryq@[E  2007-05-27 14:38:11 
Re: DIY SF
Robert Carnegie <rja.c  2007-05-28 05:51:58 
Re: DIY SF
mimus <tinmimus99@[EMA  2007-05-28 11:55:56 
Re: DIY SF
rja.carnegie@[EMAIL PROTE  2007-05-28 08:25:20 
Re: DIY SF
"Paul Ian Harman&quo  2007-05-29 15:28:32 

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