Originally posted by Juicy
I live in Illinios and we had the tornado sirens go off here in December........ The hubby is going to work tonight as usual at the power plant. The geese are still on the lake.

This almost sounds like you live on my lake..... lots of Canadian Geese still here, they were riding ATV's on the frozen lake yesterday. We have a large power plant in town as well as an Avertine Facility (spl?) an ethanol plant that was called Corn Products back in the day....And the tornado whipped through about 6 miles south of us on the northeast track, but it was hairy there for a good 20 minutes as a solid string of storms roared through with massive lightning strikes.





[edit on 28-1-2008 by robertfenix]

Ugh. I will be so glad when this rock cruises right along. It makes you weary reading everything and staying caught up.

I saw this on thundarr the barbarian, remember, scifi is one step ahead of real life

That TU24 Website is nuts!!!

I certainly hope they dont cause anyone to hurt themselves over this one!!!

Those of you who dont feel "safe" do like i did- go wait it out with family or friends. Oh and bring a hardhat.

[edit on 28-1-2008 by dgtempe]

Ive been reading this thread for the past 5 6 days, more or less carefully. I really don’t know what I believe, obviously I don’t also have the background to process critically the info mentioned, trajectories and distances and the JPL data and so on…

I m only thinking of this scenario: What if this is a case where there is a really very small chance that the asteroid could hit and also that could take place in a vast geographical area.

Would we have known anything about it? Would NASA admit it? Would media present it? Was anything going to be different on terms of how we were informed? I honestly honestly doubt it. If nothing else panic would have killed more. And that badastronomy guy says astronomers would have said something. 1st how many people has access to the raw data before they are posted in the various web pages? 2nd if an astronomer was presented with the case there´s 1 out say for example 10.000 that it hits as and that in an area the size of say South East Asia would it makes sense to reply "ok lets everybody know and start moving 1 billion people now".

And come on… there´s something really funny here… this would have been at least in the various “entertainment” news normally.

No Oz, I might have not explained myself correctly… I didn’t mean its going to devastate a massive area, I meant that the impact point would be uncertain and would only be calculated precisely at a time very close to the impact. A very small chance for a very big area.