[RightWhale]

Must be asteroid hunters budget season again.

we could be struck without warning

Or there could be warning. If it matters.

[doom n gloom]

Ah, the inevitability of it all..

[Focault's Pendulum]

Two hours after impact, 400-foot waves reach beaches from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras, and by four hours after impact the entire East Coast has experienced waves at least 200 feet high,

How fast would these dissipate?

[onedoug]

Cowabunga! Surf's up! Grab your boards to eternity.

[MikalM]

There's a pretty good movie called THE LAST WAVE about this scenario. It's actually mainly about Aussie attorney Richard Chamberlain defending a group of urban Aborigines accused of ritual murder, but it gets into how Chamberlain unwittingly brings about the fulfillment of an ancient doomsday prophecy.

[Blue Screen of Death]

Oh dear me, when did I last rotate the tires on my car? Did I turn the coffie pot off before I left the house? When are shots due for my dog? What... me worry? Was this study funded by the makers of Vallium?

[Redcloak]

They have computers at Uncle Charlie's Summer Camp?

[Chi-townChief]

I definitely need to mark my calendar.

[JRandomFreeper]

March 16, 2880, is the day the asteroid known as 1950 DA, a huge rock two-thirds of a mile in diameter, is due to swing so close to Earth it could slam into the Atlantic Ocean at 38,000 miles per hour.

Seems like a good day for a party. Who brings the beer?

/john

[randog]

Erik Asphaug, an associate professor of Earth sciences...

Am I reading this right--the guy's name is Ass Fog?

[Larry Lucido]

A computer simulation of an asteroid impact tsunami developed by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows waves as high as 400 feet sweeping onto the Atlantic Coast of the United States

The computer simulation further showed the waves seeking out the poor and homeless, particularly minorities and working single mothers, and sweeping them all out to sea, but not without first flooding inner city voting locations and thus further disenfranchising the most needy.

[Mustard Plaster]

Chicken Little is right! the Sky is falling!

[Billthedrill]

Hmm...2880? I think my Y2K stuff will still be good...

[meowmeow]

Well after reading the thread about the guy who wants to prove Jesus was gay and the one about the 6th graders and their right to wear thongs, I can’t say I’d be sad to see it coming.

Surf's up!

[gcruse]

"Sweeping Civilization Away In A Single Wave"

I believe civilization is a little more resilient than the new Great Flooders think it is.

[blam]

You're having an impact party and didn't invite me?

Evidence Of Tunguska-Type Impacts Over The Pacific Basin Around The Year 1178 AD

[Jabba the Nutt]

"He showed, for example, that the collapse of an unstable volcanic slope in the Canary Islands could send a massive tsunami toward the U.S. East Coast."

Saw this on the Discovery Channel, possible 700 foot wave to hit New York.

[SunkenCiv]

from 2003.

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