The Apocalypse

[deposition]

what i think will happen:

1)commet will fly right past us

2)You will feel really stupid

[alainbryden]

pwnd

[Lupin_the_3rd]

Above a height of about 500km is the exosphere, a layer where the atmosphere merges into space.

That's under 800 miles.

Although the atmosphere extends to a height of 1000km, it is nevertheless still very important for life on the surface of the Earth. This is because of something known as air pressure, which we will learn more about on the next page.

[SephirothFF7]

Lupin..you were..wrong..so next time don't be so quick to flame my posts.

[Lupin_the_3rd]

i am in no way wrong. The source i got it from says 1000km. Read the whole page. Maybe that information is incorrect, maybe it is correct.

[Anonymous]

An Astroid 800 miles away or whatever would be pulled in by earths gravity. Trust me, any astroid that comes that close hits o_O Anything closer than the distance of the moon...is a pretty close call in space terms.

As for the star supernova'ing comment...any star that supernova's isn't going to leave any debris big enough to do anything.

[BluE_MeaniE]

Above a height of about 500km is the exosphere, a layer where the atmosphere merges into space.

That's under 800 miles.

Although the atmosphere extends to a height of 1000km, it is nevertheless still very important for life on the surface of the Earth. This is because of something known as air pressure, which we will learn more about on the next page.

Then I apologize. I only read the beginning of the site. But okay, then, nevermind.

[Lupin_the_3rd]

heh, not that it matters anyway. As a matter of fact, i believe that your facts are right...I just did some additional research at other websites. It tends to be around 550km. There is no definite end to the atmosphere, it just kind of thins out.

And Guest is right. Something flying 800miles away from us would definitely be pulled in by our tractor beams(set on full power) and hit us. At the very least, it would cause tidal waves in Japan or something... Not that anyone would care.

[Cenright]

Ok, Let's say an asteroid of meteoroid is about the size of the earth or bigger. That chunk of rock does not have to hit the earth to do damage. It's gravitational pull and ours would make them to pull on each other, greatly altering the earth's orbit path around the sun (and the free-flying path of the rock), which could send us into the sun, or just make our orbit more eliptical because we are pulled towards or away (depending on which side the rock passes the earth), meaning the earth would get much hotter and much colder, depending on whether the earth is at apogee or parogee to the sun.

[jewpinthethird]

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/space/atmosphere.html

Government/Nasa issued website.

[Yanah_God]

the real apocolyse will happen when the Milky Way and Andromeda collide

if we aren't out of the galaxy or extinct by then, we are doomed

[trillobyite]

Well, 50+ astroids have already headed toward Earth, but they have all been stopped by Jupiter. The reason why out of the millions of asteroids in the asteroid belt, none have truly threatened Earth too much is because of the gravitational pull of Jupiter, which basically gets all the comets to crash on it.

[RenmazuoGK]

Eventually everything's survival rate drops to 0. With all those asteroids flying by, eventually one is going to hit. I don't care whether the chances are .0001% that it's going to hit. There's still a chance.

[COBOL]

just read revelations

[perfect_fat]

I'm with RenmazuoGK. Everything dies. Every one of us is going to die. Once we learn to accept that, rather than fear it, we can move on with our lives.