Re: Sci-Fi movie "Impact"

PV wrote:
> "Mac Breck" <macthevorlon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> almost no effect at all.  If it came in at a high enough velocity,
>> perpendicular to the plane of our solar system and passed through an
>> area where there were no nearby planets, there shouldn't be much of
>> an effect at all (perhaps some minor orbit eccentricities).
>
> If it came within 200,000 miles, you can forget about earth being in
> less than several pieces afterwards. At that distance, and at the
> speed an object tens of times more massive than jupiter would be
> traveling by the time it got to the inner solar system (leaving aside
> the velocity it already had), the earth would be spit out of the
> solar system at ludicruous speed, if it didn't (much more likely)
> shatter to bits from tidal effects.

Ludicruous speed???  LOL  Sorry, I had a "Spaceballs" moment.



> This is a dumb, dumb idea for a disaster movie, unless it ends with
> everyone dead....

No doubt about it.



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Mac Breck (KoshN)
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reason, no matter how badly they treat us, we still can't walk away.