# Watching the Earth get hit by a giant asteroid from space

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 16, 2012, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-earth-get-hit-by-a-giant-asteroid-from-space/622072 "2012-05-16T08:09:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-earth-get-hit-by-a-giant-asteroid-from-space/622072/21 "2012-05-16T20:08:15Z")

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Humanity would survive a dino-killer-sized impactor, probably even without any advance warning, and give us a year or two warning, and we could save huge numbers of people. We’ve had the technology to do that for millennia. Something _that_ big, though? Fuhgettaboutit.

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**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-earth-get-hit-by-a-giant-asteroid-from-space/622072/22 "2012-05-16T20:49:59Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> We are talking about an asteroid bigger than the state of Rhode Island hitting the Earth at hypersonic speeds. Such an impact would throw up debris the size of Dinosaur Killer asteroids.
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> [In fact, it would probably look something like this.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYgEwXWilUc)

Looks a lot like my link [in post #10](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15069750&postcount=10) (though I’ll take the blame for not providing more descriptive link text).

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**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-earth-get-hit-by-a-giant-asteroid-from-space/622072/23 "2012-05-16T22:04:27Z")

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> [@Machine\_Elf](#):
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> Looks a lot like my link [in post #10](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15069750&postcount=10) (though I’ll take the blame for not providing more descriptive link text).

[Here’s the same video but with a different soundtrack.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7IHNnyJ00) 😃

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**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-earth-get-hit-by-a-giant-asteroid-from-space/622072/24 "2012-05-17T02:11:37Z")

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> [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](#):
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> [Here’s the same video but with a different soundtrack.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7IHNnyJ00) 😃

It’s funny to see all of the related videos, like [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5GAG9kpAG8&feature=related) that use the same video, supposedly to happen on December 21. As if we couldn’t see it coming already (I am sure we would have warning far in advance given the size).

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