http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15572634

Obi-Wan where are you….

What would happen if one that big hit? Extinction, huge Tsunami, crater & a bit of dust ?

I read somewhere it’d be about the same as a large nuclear bomb . So not a life extinction event

It’s not that big, only 2.8926 Brontosauri wide according to The Register Standard Units.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html

It’s not that big, only 2.8926 Brontosauri wide according to The Register Standard Units.

Well that’s utter pish, for starters. Everyone knows the longest dinosaur was Diplodocus, at ~27m or 3 standard London double decker buses.

A 400m wide asteroid is therefore 14.8 Diplodoci or 44.4 London buses.

I’m sure whatever mark it made would polish out…..probably

44.4 London buses

Thank goodness. Someone finally posted a measurement using the universally recognised unit of London Bus.

Now can someone please post a picture showing the asteroid in relation to a blue whale (side profile) and/or a Boeing 747 (plan view).

Or maybe next to some internationally recognised landmarks – Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty etc

Thanks

the universally recognised unit of London Bus.

Except the Routemaster is no more.

There’s a generation growing up now for whom this unit of measurement will have no meaning. They’ll here their parents talking about it and have to go and look up on the internet what it means and then find some modern equivalent (one routemaster = 115 Playstations) to make sense of things.

I never understood measuring horses hands. Maybe years ago there was a horse with hands,but it must have been extincted (by falling London Bus), cuz they all have hooves now, which are quite big on Shires.

never understood mearuring horses hands

Whilst the rest of the world was using a tape measure or some such thing to quantify size using a universally recognised unit, some obtuse so-and-so decides that for horses “no, we’ll use hands for measuring the size of this” … and for some reason, ever since nobody dare express a horse height in terms of anything that people actually relate to.

Well that’s utter pish, for starters. Everyone knows the longest dinosaur was Diplodocus, at ~27m or 3 standard London double decker buses.

Everyone is wrong then. 😀

Seen that about the meteorite the other day on the news, pretty cool stuff.

If this thing was on a collision course how could we stop/divert it?

I am guessing some form of nuclear missile but would that work in space without oxygen to fuel the explosion?

Most people can relate to ‘hands’ though?

I tend to use the followign for measuring horses height;

1) sunk to it’s knees in the ground – a Shetland pony
2) small – anything a 6 year old might ride
3) medium – it’s eyeline is just above mine
4) ‘kin huge – everything else.

It’s served me in good stead for a number of years and I see no need to change now.

I knew a girl that laughed like a horse once, she liked hands placed on her too.. asitappens

Where would it hit? Ironic that US’s spy satelitte came down….in the US 😆

Except the Routemaster is no more.

Not quite true…. There are still a couple of routemasters running in that London. Used to see one of them regularly along Fleet St when I was working there (this year).

If this thing was on a collision course how could we stop/divert it?

Bruce Willis.

Most people can relate to ‘hands’ though?

But who’s hands?

Clearly not a childs hand, but adult hands can vary significantly

I might start stating my height in hands from now on.

What about willies? (using the hands system). I fear most men would prefer to use Jeremy Beadles hand to multiple measure their schlong.

Chuck Norris could just roundhouse kick it back out in to space.

What about willies?

I can’t see measuring horses heights in ‘willies’ is going to catch on.

The consequences of a misplaced hoof at the wrong moment don’t bare thinkign about.

It’s not that big, only 2.8926 Brontosauri wide according to The Register Standard Units.
Well that’s utter pish, for starters. Everyone knows the longest dinosaur was Diplodocus, at ~27m or 3 standard London double decker buses.

A 400m wide asteroid is therefore 14.8 Diplodoci or 44.4 London buses.

Get up to date chaps – the british media stand unit of measure for something big is ‘An area the size of Wales’

I never understood measuring horses hands. Maybe years ago there was a horse with hands,but it must have been extincted

Pantomime Horses have hands, transvestite pantomime horses have big hands

The consequences of a misplaced hoof at the wrong moment don’t bare thinkign about.

Neigh lad. I think you are wrong.

Everyone knows the longest dinosaur was Diplodocus, at ~27m or 3 standard London double decker buses.

The green one is the longest one according to you

that red one is a lot of willies tall.

I am guessing some form of nuclear missile but would that work in space without oxygen to fuel the explosion

I don’t think you need oxygen to manage nuclear reactions. If I’m wrong, the sun’ll go out pretty quick.

I am guessing some form of nuclear missile but would that work in space without oxygen to fuel the explosion?

Lack of understanding of physics or chemistry makes the baby jesus cry. 😥

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The green one is the longest one according to you

Yes, but the red one is only a guesstimate based on incomplete and fragmented fossil finds. Not good enough in my book.

I’d quite like the red one to ride to work on, please. Does it eat schoolchildren?

If I was the little blue fella in junkyards pic I think I’d be running away not standing there waving at the dinosaur racing!

the red one’s got a Megafataus.

how many Blue Whales is that?

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If I was the little blue fella in junkyards pic I think I’d be running away not standing there waving at the dinosaur racing!

He’s the starter!

This is a great big Dino. scale incluing the Jurassic Park 4×4. Clicky & zoom in-

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18,255px × 907px

largest image ever posted?

He’s the starter!

Unless it’s not a race and he’s a caveman waiting patiently for the invention of the lollipop so he can see them all safely across the road 😀

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Its got to be big its got dinosaurs on it and dinosaurs are massive!

Nobody mention the BFO as a unit of measure yet?

If it comes anywhere near me I’ll flippin’ punch it! 😡

Obviously it’s size is equivalent to 4 olympic swimming pools and it would destroy an area the size of Wales .