I made a funny noise when I read that. Unlike the vaguely whimpering and dying-on-the-inside noise I made when I read the OP.
Yeah, and it really must be scary, like **clairobscur **said. It reminds me of what someone on here said: that it must be really painful to be a Fundamentalist Christian (or Muslim) and to “know” that almost everyone around you is going to suffer forever in Hell.
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
Has anyone noticed the OP’s home page (blog)? - it’s:
http://baudrunner.blogspot.com/
-He doesn’t just believe one crackpot idea, as presented here, he’s gone for the whole set.
is this how they build antimatter asteroids with soft under bellies?
I have a wreath made of false poinsettias on my mantel.
So far, so good.
Good God. You just can’t make these people up. I really, really hope the OP is an elaborate troll. How do people go through the educational system believing this crap?
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
ETA: Maybe all these people will disappear in Dec. 2012? Is it too much to hope for?
[phony-baloney lunior (accidental misspelling I liked and kept) mod hat on] Now, now, now, we can’t wish ill on our fellow posters. Otherwise they don’t come back and provide more fun. [p-bl(amIlak)mh off]
If he’s given enough time to prepare, Batman would be able to easily defeat the whole of Toutatis.
And indeed, the precise preparations he needs to make are laid out in the OP: he just needs to fire his Bat-nuke at it.
Great. Batman’s got the bomb.
Dibs on fixing the COBOL programs.
Will he then set us up with it?
Here’s one surprising thing. Having never read Asterix, I’d never heard of Toutatis, so I had to look it up. There really is an asteroid named Toutatis, and it actually does have a 4-year eccentric orbit that brings it into close proximity to the Earth, and its next pass really is sometime in 2012. No information on whether that’s to happen in December, though. Its pass in 2004 came in September.
There are some decent pictures on the NASA site, but nothing showing a soft underbelly. I think baudrunner may have to rethink his strategy.
Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb.
At the risk of contaminating this debate with an appeal for facts: a bit of internet searching reveals that asteroid Toutatis weighs approximately 50 trillion kg. Per the OP, if half of the asteroid’s mass were comprised of antimatter (as they so often are), and this quantity of antimatter were dropped into the Sun, what exactly would happen? Would the annihilation of that much antimatter appreciably affect the Sun’s energy output? Would there be solar flares? Magnetic storms? I exclude the potential effects of Lucifer’s minions on the asteroid’s surface from this enquiry.
According to Harvard, the next pass actually will occur on December 12, 2012, (at 6:43 a.m., presumably UT, if I read that correctly). Of course, that is nine days too early for the Mayan end-of-calendar date.
I’m not sure whether to find it neat that it will actually roughly coincide with the Mayan calendar rollover or whether to be dismayed that as more nutcases discover this fact we are going to be inundated with doomsayers.
Go for the chair. Set your sights higher.
Center for NEO Studies I can not find a decent 2012 threat here.
Right, but doesn’t the op say that they will off-load all of the aliens, thereby giving them 9 or 11 days to prep/whatever for the end of days?
If shockwaves travel faster than light, could farts be the key to time travel ?
I think it’s even too much to hope that they will acknowledge they were wrong and shut the fuck up.
The Sun converts about 4 million tons of mass into energy each second. If half of 50 trillion kg (50 billion tons) is antimatter, it would convert 50 billion tons of mass to energy (25 billion tons of antimatter + 25 billion tons of matter). This would equal 12500 seconds (over 3 hours) worth of the Sun’s total output. Released over a relatively short time, that would be significant.