Watch If An Asteroid Hit Earth (VIDEO)

This extraordinary video is being passed around the web like wildfire, so we felt we should give our readers a chance to view it. How realistic does it seem to you? Do you like the choice of Pink Floyd music for the video? Nothing like the end of the world to celebrate the New Year. Discuss your thoughts in the comments. Enjoy.

Comments

[NebulaNoxx]

BTW, If an asteroid THAT size hit the earth - the total destruction is just about accurate.

[NebulaNoxx]

I love listening to that woman sing that riff anytime - an outstanding way to end the world. Brava!!!!

[DrunkenTromboneMaster]

Agree 100%

[dolphy]

That size asteroid would break both the asteroid and the earth apart. The earths crust is paper thin compared to the earths size that the asteroid would burst the earth immediately upon impact and disperse us into space.

[svmaggieb]

All higher life forms wiped out!

Nothing left but cockroaches and fundamentalists...

[GingerB]

heh

[kittygotclaws]

Nostradamus and the Bible revelation sixth seal , both do tell of blood red sea ( red algee lack of oxygen ) sky black as sackcloth from ashes.Now Iseral at war. Makes you think just how real this could be.

[Indubio]

No actually it doesn't. Mixing science and religion is always a mistake. Revelations could well describe just about any cataclysmic event or it could just as easily decribe someone's nightmare or a bad acid trip.

[LawrenceOfAcademia]

Allstate DOES have asteroid insurance but the deductible is huge: EVERYTHING.

[kernel85]

Scary, but I'm hanging on to my retirement plan.

[LawrenceOfAcademia]

At least we got rid of France.

[Indubio]

French would probably say the same things for American conservatives so where does that leave us?

[jokamachi]

Leave Floyd out of it.

[cdub1991]

I assume the production is new, since the footage actually isn't. I remember this animation from a PBS show one or two years ago. It's suppose to be pretty realistic, if you are assuming that the object is the size of a small moon--not your typical earth crossing asteroid.

[KillTheMessenger]

If you were a first semester physics student and I was a TA, I would expect you to find at least a dozen obvious mistakes in the video or I would fail you in a test.

:-)

[rmc53x]

Tou probably are a TA. that's why you have so much time to post comments on blogs

[Indubio]

And presuming that the object is perfectly round, which no known asteriod happens to be. I thought it far to symetrically for a realistic simulation. In any event, we are far more in danger of being small asteriods that would remain undetected until it was too late to do anything to alter it's course and all one could do is put your head between your legs and kiss you ass good bye. It wouldn't take an asteriod the size of a small moon to create a 'nuclear winter' and wipe out all h igher life forms. People who call for an end to exploration is space should watch this and consider that rather than cut back on space expxloration we should drastically cut back on military spending and increase space exploration with long distance sensors and direct human contact.

[jnah]

i agree that we should cut military spending but why more on space? i have this argument weekly with my brother. my not solve the problems at home if we can pull more people out of poverty there could be a million more scientist watching the skys. lets not look too far

[Dante in Madison]

That's no moon. It's a space station.

[Motorinstructor]

This scenario may have been predicted by the bible. In the book of Revelations Chaper 8 verse 8 it says: "Then the second angel blew his trumpet, and a great mountain of fire was thrown into the sea. And one-third of the water in the sea became blood. And one-third of all things living in the sea died. And one-third of all the ships in the sea were destroyed." Many people, including myself, believe that we are soon entering the time predicted by the book of Revelations. It is interesting that all of a sudden scientists are concerned about this. It may happen sooner than we think!

[MissKaren]

A friend sent it to me and my response was, "take your Prozac" The end of the year does not mean the end of life as we know it..

[ZalaK]

Or perhaps a metaphor suggesting the potential damage from global warming.

[USAFree1]

Oh pleaaaase. The book of Revelation, no "s", was the least reliable book to be included in the NT. Most except the top brass didn't want to include it as Revelation is sooooo out there. The only reason the Council of Nicaea included it was to scare people into behaving like Rome and the Church said to behave. It was all about control.

[Motorinstructor]

It may have seemed like it was sooooo out there in the 4th Century, but it is definitely more plausible today. More people than ever before are seeking the book for answers.

[JohnSawyer]

At least one remarkable thing about the Book of Revelation, is the number of people who believe many of the events it describes, in which it seems billions would die, have already happened, just before the point where "the" antichrist reigns. Funny, I don't remember any of this happening yet:

Revelation 6:12-17:

"...there was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth....The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

"Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains...."

Not to mention many other world-destroying pre-antichrist events that Revelation describes, including the usual hails of fire, blood, mountain-sized rocks falling from the sky into the ocean (shades of asteroids!), the death of a third of mankind, the blazing return of the ark of the covenant flying down from the sky...I think we'd have noticed.

One revelation I had of my own, which may partly explain why so many fundamentalists believe in Revelation, is that, according to at least one believer I communicated with briefly online, many of these people don't bother to read much or any of it themselves, but instead have their minister read selected portions to them.

[Malcatraz]

The bible also says that if you wear clothes made from "flaxen seed" you should be stoned to death. Awesome book, let's build a society around it.

[Tanker71]

HAHAHA Outstanding.

[joetherealist]

Moroninstructor, the bible also says that Noah gathered two examples each of millions of species onto a single wooden ark that he made himself to save the animal kingdom. Don't bet the farm on Revelations coming true. Better yet, sell the farm and move to Alaska!

[USAFree1]

And listening to The Climax Blues Band's song "Afternoon Delight".

[rmc53x]

Or Ravel's Bolero

[USAFree1]

I realize that the Earth is mostly water, but I wonder why these scenarios always have the astroid landing in the water. The largest astroid we know about landed in Siberia somewhere. If this happens, I hope the damned thing falls on my house and my hubby and I are making love. Wow! What a send off.

[Mason]

The Moon likely was created by an impact that dislodged literally a moon-size chunk of the Earth and the asteroid that wiped out most of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago ending the Cretaceous Period slammed into the Gulf of Mexico not far from the Yucatan Peninsula. It was 6 to 7 miles wide and much larger than the asteroid that impacted Siberia.

The largest extinction of life ended the Permian Period approximately 250 million years ago. Over 90% of our planet's life forms were killed off. Scientists do not believe this mass extinction was caused by an asteroid impact. Instead, they attribute it to widespread volcanic activity in Siberia. A new and controversial theory proposes that the volcanic activity was caused by a dense plume rising from the Earth's core through the mantle destroying the Earth's magnetic shield. This event precipitated a deadly climate shift that kicked off the kill-off and the plume finished it later when it penetrated through the crust and reached the surface setting off the deadly volcanic activity in Siberia.

There weren't even any dinosaurs to play with.

Earth was a lonely and inhospitable place at the beginning of the Triassic.

[LeftCoaster]

Wow! Intense! Makes you wonder about the whole 'god' thing!

[StrategicThinker]

One, why make the asteroid so large?

Two, the government wouldn't tell you if one was about to hit.