Giant poo misses Earth!

[Crackle]

a bus is going to collide with the Earth?

Tomorrow?

I bet it's late.

It'll be two together as well.

 

[jonesy]

Surely someone has expressed the size of the asteroid in London bus units?

 

[4F]

Surely someone has expressed the size of the asteroid in London bus units?

No not this time, they have used the universal measurement of football pitches.

 

[Headgardener]

No not this time, they have used the universal measurement of football pitches.

But I am not interested in football so I don't know how big a pitch is where as I do know how big a bus is.

 

[jonesy]

But I am not interested in football so I don't know how big a pitch is where as I do know how big a bus is.

Quite. Furthermore, football pitch is a unit of area, whereas the asteroid is clearly three-dimensional, so we need a unit of volume.

 

[cheadle hulme]

The object, known as 2009 DD45, is as large as 250 Ford Fiestas or 5.5m International SCE*



*Stella Can Equivalents

 

[jpembroke]

The object, known as 2009 DD45, is as large as 250 Ford Fiestas or 5.5m International SCE*



*Stella Can Equivalents

Can you imagine if we were bombarded by a load of old ford fiestas and empty stella cans? Serve us right for being so damn untidy and wasteful if you ask me.

 

[Mr Pig]

These things only ever land in the tundra, desert or arctic anyway.

No, it's the other way around. One of these land and where you live 'becomes' tundra!

 

[Headgardener]

The object, known as 2009 DD45, is as large as 250 Ford Fiestas or 5.5m International SCE*



*Stella Can Equivalents

Is that 5.5 metres or 5.5 million?

 

[tyred]

I won't lose any sleep over this. Life's too short. shoot happens. What can you do about it the equivalent of 250 Fiestas are about to land on you? Put up your umbrella?

 

[cisamcgu]

1/23,087,777 of the size of Wales !

 

[Crackle]

1/23,087,777 of the size of Wales !

...and in Belgiums?

 

[cisamcgu]

1/33,920,000 of the size of Belgium !

 

[Chuffy]

...and in Belgiums?

Isn't Luxembourg often used as a unit of size?

What we really need is the volume measured thusly:- Nelson's Columns x London buses x football pitches. Weight will, of course, be expressed in adult elephants. Now all we need is a measure for density.

 

[Mr Pig]

I'm sure it's nothing to worry about. The next one to hit will almost certainly land somewhere unimportant like America.