Mini skrev:
de där låter ju inte så trevligt

bara en vecka kvar nu å om de e sant..

azag-thoth skrev:
FEMA övar för detta just vid den tidpunkten. Slump?

http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=25962

Anonym73 skrev:

“Experts agree that the likelihood of a massive earthquake and tsunamis wave is very real, and speak in terms of not if, but when. Our critical infrastructure is vulnerable, and advance preparation is the key to a successful response,” said Murphy.

azag-thoth skrev:
zpz: Det är ju självklart att FEMA håller sig på andra sidan landet och mobiliserar om dom tror att det finns en chans att något ska hända. Dom vill ju inte riskera att bli drabbade av katastrofen själva.

Givetvis tror jag inte att FEMA har någon telepatisk kontakt med utomjordingar. Men däremot tror jag att dom kan sitta inne med information som inte kommer ut till folket. Om det finns någon % chans att något skulle kunna inträffa så vill dom inte riskera masspanik.

micro skrev:
Enligt sidan så är det en flisa av kometen som lossnat och som är så liten att den inte kan upptäckas. Den har dock så hög hastighet att den kommer att göra stor skada.

silverboy skrev:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1640173.htm

Bonus: There could be a meteor shower, too.

This is very uncertain, indeed, forecasters consider it unlikely. But an expanding cloud of dust from the 1995 break-up of the comet could brush past Earth in May 2006 producing a display of meteors.

Astronomer Paul Wiegert at the University of Western Ontario has studied the possibility:

"We believe the cloud is expanding too slowly to reach Earth only eleven years after the break-up," he says, "but it all depends on what caused the comet to fly apart—and that we don't know."

"The most likely explanation is thermal stress, with the icy nucleus cracking like an ice cube dropped into hot soup: the comet broke apart as it approached the Sun after a long sojourn the frigid outer solar system," he explains. "If this is truly what happened, then the debris cloud should be expanding slowly, and there will be no strong meteor shower."

On the other hand, what if "the comet was shattered by a hit from a small interplanetary boulder?" A violent collision would produce faster-moving debris that could reach Earth in 2006.

Wiegert expects to see nothing, but he encourages sky watchers to be alert. It wouldn't be the first time a dying comet produced a meteor shower:

"One outstanding example is comet Biela, which was seen to split in 1846, and had completely broken apart by 1872," he says. "At least three very intense meteor showers (3000-15000 meteors per hour) were produced by this dying comet in 1872, 1885 and 1892."

Assuming a thermal breakup for 73P, Wiegert and colleagues have calculated the most likely trajectory of its dust cloud. Their results: dust should reach Earth in 2022, "producing a minor meteor shower--nothing spectacular. However," he adds, "the ongoing splitting of the comet means new meteoroids are being sent in new directions, so a future strong meteor shower from 73P remains a real possibility."

azag-thoth skrev:
This is very uncertain, indeed, forecasters consider it unlikely.

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