Death Inc

for all of you paranoid types,

white is new discover, green is safe, yellow is earth approachers, red are earth crossers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_d-gs0WoUw

None of those have hit us....yet :|

^ well there was the one that wiped out the dinosaurs (supposedly)

This sort of thing is awesome, really makes you think how little we really know about what is beyond our atmosphere...

How the fuck are we still here?  

That is spooky..at a glance what 1000+ asteroids that are of a detectable size came close to hitting us in the last 30 yrs alone?

Fuck this..if i'm gonna get taken out by a rock its time I live it up...who's up for  a kilo of coke and some non english speaking whores?

Apparantely..not Kylie :(

All i know is that if it came down to Chalice to shoot down an asteroid, as his BFBC2 accuracy and K/D Ratio proves, the asteroid would kill him at least 5-6 times before he could sucessfully hit and destroy it

I have a positive KDR and high accuracy thank you very much..now, who'll lend me nuke :D

i just hope FF isnt on or we're all fucked

BHahaha!!!! :D

talking about how small we are, I saw a picture of a massive bunch of galaxies and what not, the entire milky way (not just earth, OUR WHOLE GALAXY!) was a small blue dot. then think about how small earth is to the milky way, then about how small massive cities are to the earth, than how small we are compared to huge ass buildings.

needless to say I am 6 foot 3 and have no problem about feeling small :D

check this out then:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347

Lets you zoom out to the edge of the known universe (93 billion light years away) and then zoom in to the subatomic level to things that are so small that they have never actually been observed, only theorized as to their existence.

my mouth is drooling, my eyes are bleeding. my head. well...
(http://ishitnoise.com/wiki/images/9/99/ExplodingHead.GIF)
that was amazing. honestly, I dont feel small but I think that i am absolutely miniature to everything slightly bigger now. you deserve a +1 for your brilliance.

just a side note, wouldn't using that thing be a pretty good entrance for the big bang theory? :P (the show, not the actual theory)

Im more worried about Apophis and thats only 30 or so years away :\

theres a 1 in 250 000 chance of that one hitting us

I paid more attention to the awesome music than the video itself :D there are a couple of sounds in it that remind me of part of the fifth element soundtrack.

Yea but didnt it jump all the way up to 1 in 40 if it hit somthing else on its way and moved its course? but they said it was like 1 in a 500 000 of it hitting somthing so should be alright hehehe

Real scary is cancer statistics.

Chances of dying from any invasive cancer
Men, 1 in 4
Women, 1 in 5

http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerBasics/lifetime-probability-of-developing-or-dying-from-cancer

I've actually read up a bit on cancer stats a while ago.
Firstly you've got to develop cancer before you die from it, so for men the odds of that are 1 in 2 for men, 1 in 3 for women. when you extrapolate that out its more like 1 in 8 men will die from cancer, and 1 in 15 women.

Those odds are averaged out over your lifetime, its only when you reach 70-80 years of age that the chance of developing cancer reaches 1 in 2 people or greater, which brings the average down.

In western society you are just as likely to die from a car accident, heart disease or diabetes as you are from cancer. For all we know about cancer there seems little we can do about it anyway. Some of the healthiest people I know have been struck down by it while some people with terrible habits seems to charge along without problems.

The fact is you gotta die of something no matter how healthy you are so there's no point staying up at night worrying about it.
As far as dying from an asteroid impact goes, I think the odds of getting cancer are greater than that :P Most asteroids are small enough to burn up in the atmosphere, that's where you get shooting stars from. The ones that make it to the surface do cause some  devastation but not usually enough to wipe out life on the planet. Here's a really old one http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0310_050310_meteorcrater.html this 1.2km crater was theorized to be caused by something 50m in diamater. Odds are that it was significantly larger before it entered the atmosphere.

So the odds of dying from an asteroid impact are pretty low. The cool thing about this however it is really makes you think about earth's place in the universe. We think we're all high and mighty but in reality we are but one small planet in one small system, there's millions more out there. The people who say that there is no such thing as extraterrestrial life don't understand what they are talking about, with the sheer number of planets in the universe its almost inconceivable that there wouldn't be life on some of them.

my step dad has cancer, then I foudn out soem other guys dad died of cancer. I also heard whatshisface...michael douglas had it, and some other actor. this shit gets around

you guys want scary............strains of this is living on your skin, its only waiting for your immune system to fail..... fuck asteroids.......this shit is EVERYWHERE............and i see it daily.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methicillin-resistant_Staphylococcus_aureus

From 1980 - 2010.

Its more about how many have been identified within that time-frame than how many are actually there.
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lol at Anglo, there is something similar in our digestive system as well. From memory is serves some purpose in there, but isn't a part of us, it is like a microscopic sqautter.
I remember at chef school doing petrie dishes, I wiped a ear bud on my cheek, and put it onto the petire dish, a week later the staf was so virulent it wasn't safe to open.
Reminds me of a myth buster episode they did looking for micro organisms, the "dirtiest" thing they found was the kitchen sponge, the toilet seat was angelic in comparison.

there is even scarier stuff i have heard about, but even i dont know enough to talk about that stuff....