Video: The freaky double deaky “Pink Floyd asteroid impact” clip
posted at 12:15 pm on December 28, 2008 by Allahpundit
Share on Facebook | printer-friendly
Further proof that there’s nothing “Dark Side of the Moon” can’t be synced to. I’m embedding the standard format clip because I know some of you are lazy and won’t click, but trust me when I say that you’ll want to watch this in widescreen HD. Preferably tonight, after you’ve imbibed some holiday cheer. Extinction events never tripped so hard!
Exit question: Looks like ground zero is smack dab in the middle of the Pacific. Japan just can’t catch a break, huh?
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Blowback
Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with our terms of use may lose their posting privilege.
Trackbacks/Pings
Trackback URL
Comments
Comment pages: 1 2 Next »
Somehow this would be President Bush’s fault.
Hog Wild on December 28, 2008 at 12:25 PM
That was awesome.
BowHuntingTexas on December 28, 2008 at 12:25 PM
Now that’s global warming.
shooten on December 28, 2008 at 12:27 PM
What is it with people and catastrophic snuff porn?
Count to 10 on December 28, 2008 at 12:29 PM
Sweet!
And wow, those old Greek columns can withstand anything…
JetBoy on December 28, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Was this a man made ‘roid attraction? We can’t do anything financially or do social remodeling to avoid this unless we can determine that what drew it to us was us.
BL@KBIRD on December 28, 2008 at 12:30 PM
cheerful
rob verdi on December 28, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Seeing as how Tokyo is specifically pictured, and there is a close up of Japan getting obliterated, I’m guessing the guy that made this was Japanese.
Count to 10 on December 28, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Damn. you beat me to it!
conservnut on December 28, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Now will you guys stop driving SUV’s?
trubble on December 28, 2008 at 12:34 PM
What this Earth needs is a bailout.
Fletch54 on December 28, 2008 at 12:34 PM
WOW, that was cool.
xplodeit on December 28, 2008 at 12:36 PM
yikes!
becki51758 on December 28, 2008 at 12:36 PM
What was that hitting earth, Pluto? Anything that large coming at us and there is no use even trying to survive.
muyoso on December 28, 2008 at 12:38 PM
That was no asteroid. That was a planetoid.
Isn’t this whole idea that Hawking was warning about? Man should colonize because otherwise all of humanity’s eggs are all in one basket.
Guardian on December 28, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Dark Side of the Moon…. amazing but it does sync perfectly with so many things.
lexhamfox on December 28, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Love Pink Floyds dark side of the moon. They are incredible to see in concert. Animals was fantastic too! I have Dark Side Of The Moon. Might watch it tonight. The music is well worth it.
sheebe on December 28, 2008 at 12:42 PM
This is why Klendathu must be destroyed…
elgeneralisimo on December 28, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Wow. I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue.
HawaiiLwyr on December 28, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Wait, I thought that now that Urkle is soon to be in charge that the world wasn’t going to end after all?
Bald Igle on December 28, 2008 at 12:53 PM
The video is from some show on Discovery or The Science Channel, which claims that something like this happened in the distant past. Another related show claims that there was once (or twice) a “snowball Earth”, in which ice covered the entire globe.
Bigfoot on December 28, 2008 at 12:57 PM
I, for one, welcome our new asteroid overlords.
scharfy on December 28, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Bellus is a problem; Zyra is our only hope.
aquaviva on December 28, 2008 at 1:01 PM
Sorry but according to the paranoid we’re supposed to be sucked into a micro blackhole by the evil mad scientists at the LHC before any asteroid gets us. Maybe someone can do a video, synced to Pink Floyd of course, of the earth being swallowed up by a micro blackhole.
Weebork on December 28, 2008 at 1:03 PM
Where’s Tea Leoni to tell us we’re all doomed?
Meryl Yourish on December 28, 2008 at 1:07 PM
And then there were none.
On a side, but related, note, I’ve always wondered why we have not been more motivated to continue to explore space.
We know that Extinction Level Events (ELE) have taken place on this planet in the past. We also know that it is not a question of if, but a question of when the next ELE will happen.
As a species are we satisfied with risking the sum total of everything we are, everything we have learned, everything we could be capable of being vaporized in an instant?
If aliens visited our plant thousands of years after an ELE and found no signs we ever inhabited the plant, found no signs of previous life, progress, love, war, human history would that be okay with you?
Perhaps I am just paranoid but I always look for an exit path to safety whenever I am in a public place. I have always wondered why we have not aggressively expanded our DNA footprint beyond this planet. Why we haven’t at least built an escape path to preserve some of what we have become over the past 10,000 years of evolving is a mystery to me.
watson007 on December 28, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Let’s see Al Gore tax that.
birdhurd on December 28, 2008 at 1:13 PM
How about a little CERN Rap?
Guardian on December 28, 2008 at 1:13 PM
No music but here’s a CERN blackhole.
Guardian on December 28, 2008 at 1:16 PM
Actually, I was thinking at least the warming freaks would shut up since they would be completely right in that situation. Of course it would help that they would also be dead along with the rest of us.
Jim708 on December 28, 2008 at 1:17 PM
We need to be able to get the frack off this rock.
ASAP.
Wind Rider on December 28, 2008 at 1:18 PM
JetBoy on December 28, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Heh! I was thinking something similar!
Would anything be standing after Pluto hit the Earth?
dish on December 28, 2008 at 1:18 PM
Dude.
D2Boston on December 28, 2008 at 1:18 PM
More than a little bit of artistic masturbation with that one. Fun to watch.
Frankly, though, anything that big would be a planet buster. At the very least, it would crack the planet into two major chunks; and more likely just shatter it into lotsa pretty little pieces.
There’s a hint of that at the very end, with the jagged line going through most of what appears to be Russia and China. But the reality would be much harsher.
Hmm. How do you get harsher than total annihilation?
Never mind.
nukemhill on December 28, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Why is Big Ben still there? If something that big (looks like the Death Star) hit us, NOTHING would be left. Nothing.
Tony737 on December 28, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Also, make sure we have the ability to know if we have to in enough time to do something about it.
Wind Rider on December 28, 2008 at 1:24 PM
So now we know the truth, the extinction of the human race is just an elaborate plot by Roger Waters and David Gilmour to sell their cd’s.
clearbluesky on December 28, 2008 at 1:25 PM
You sure the asteroid isn’t Dorothy’s house hitting Oz?
jon1979 on December 28, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Our best guess is that an even bigger impact sheared off enough crust material to form the moon.
That would make the scenario imaged here look downright survivable.
Count to 10 on December 28, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Did anyone else see Cher standing in the flames?
*Pours remaining Jaegar down the drain*
HornetSting on December 28, 2008 at 1:30 PM
That’s no moon, that’s a space station.
ReubenJCogburn on December 28, 2008 at 1:31 PM
Also, make sure we have the ability to know if we have to in enough time to do something about it. – Wind
I have this crazy idea about us all leaving before the big comet hits us. We find a new planet, there are two big continents, all the Cons and Pubs live on one continent and all the Libs and Dems live on the other. The results would be easy to predict. Libland is a crime infested, socialist nightmare while Publand is a free market, capitalist dream.
Tony737 on December 28, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Looks like you could catch one hell of a nice suntan, just taking taking a brisk walk down your block, aside from hair being on fire.
AYNBLAND on December 28, 2008 at 1:34 PM
“That’s no
moonasteroid!” (Really? Perfectly round?)Tanya on December 28, 2008 at 1:37 PM
The thing would probably get swallowed by Jupiter before it got anywhere near us.
CurtZHP on December 28, 2008 at 1:39 PM
“I can’t think of anything to say except…
I think it’s marvelous! HaHaHa!”
Ground zero should be Tehran.
William Teach on December 28, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Could this scenario be showing our own MOON being knocked out of orbit and hitting Earth?
HornetSting on December 28, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Death Star
conservnut on December 28, 2008 at 1:49 PM
So, Bush won’t be blamed. They will blame CHENEY.
Dun dun dun dun da dun dun da dun….
HornetSting on December 28, 2008 at 1:55 PM
Am I the only old Pink Floyd fan who remembers “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun”?
NeighborhoodCatLady on December 28, 2008 at 2:02 PM
A wee bit off topic:
Ahh, the exquisite piano mastery of Richard Wright and the orgasmic vocals of Clare Torry. RIP Richard. I do hope Pink Floyd will continue on with David Gilmour and Nick Mason in some manner or form. Hell, bury the hatchet mates and invite Roger Waters back before you’re all ready for the old folks home.
kevcad on December 28, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Both true.
The moon was likely formed from the impact of a Mars-sized planet that would have done much what you saw in this video–without the modern Earth, of course, since the planet looked nothing like what it does now.
Bob's Kid on December 28, 2008 at 2:10 PM
so now we can add Pink Floyd to the list of things that would survive a catacalysmic event … along with cockroaches and tupperware.
stormin1961 on December 28, 2008 at 2:19 PM
I would think that tidal forces would disrupt it before it could hit Earth as a big ball like that.
mr.blacksheep on December 28, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Hmph. Well, this is one way to get the Israelis and the Muslims to stop fighting…. lol. I’m kidding. Cause I know it would take more than just the end of the Earth.
KMC1 on December 28, 2008 at 2:39 PM
And those little black things that screw on the walls.
Oldnuke on December 28, 2008 at 2:41 PM
I don’t have a nifty link, or anything, but that impact would be much more catastrophic than this: basically, a moon’s worth of crust material gets blasted off into orbit (with a lot more falling back down). With that much disruption, you get all kinds of jiggly behavior that this video didn’t show.
Count to 10 on December 28, 2008 at 2:58 PM
An odd mixture of impressive graphics and scientific illiteracy. The creator of this apocalyptic “entertainment” clip may have started with a shot or two from Discovery or The Science Channel, but if we assume that 95% of this animation is “bad science” (and thus home-made), why wouldn’t they just create it all from scratch?
Just a few of the more problematic elements:
01. Objects that size, unless recently formed, are not geologically active. Thus, no sinister glowing craters on the planetoid as it approaches earth.
02. The view of outer space from anywhere near the earth does not show a giant glowing galactic plane/core.
03. The object is shown on a course pretty much set to hit the earth dead center, but then does one “victory lap” to show off its shadow over New York before landing in the Pacific Ocean. And no, the speed of the earth’s rotation would not account for this. Bonus hint: objects approaching from deep space do not have a shadow, because they are not between the sun and the earth.
04. The ejecta from the impact are shown starting to fall back to earth too soon. The one that happened four billion years ago, for example, formed the moon, so that may give you an idea of exactly how far out debris would be thrown.
05. The energy released from the impact of an object this size would melt the lithosphere. No fires, no Big Ben and the Parthenon in flames. Just magma everywhere.
I could go on, but you get the point. Also, because there is at least one other version of this video out there set to Terminator music that shows some Japanese subtitles midway through, I suspect that Count to 10’s theory about its origin is correct. Disappointing; I thought they were better educated in Japan.
HTL on December 28, 2008 at 3:01 PM
No, you are not the only Fan. I remember too.
sheebe on December 28, 2008 at 3:02 PM
Something like this would cause all the athiests to say…..
Seven Percent Solution on December 28, 2008 at 3:07 PM
In the middle of the Pacific, huh. Let’s see, what lays in the middle of the Pacific between Japan and the mainland USA?
Oh yeah, that’s me. Is it too late to get a refund for my cremation after I die?
Kini on December 28, 2008 at 3:12 PM
The Parthenon still stands! Are you kidding me? What’s it going to take to knock that thing down?
Weight of Glory on December 28, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Idiots! Have you learned nothing from history? Just send a rough-hewn but happy-go-lucky team of deep sea drillers into space on an intercept and destroy mission. We’ll be asteroid-free in no time and end up with a rockin’ soundtrack to boot!
CaptFlood on December 28, 2008 at 3:14 PM
I didn’t see New York, but I also didn’t notice a galactic plane. The city that gets covered by shadow looks Like Tokyo, with Mt. Fuji in the background.
I think they intended the shadow to be moving as the object approaches earth at an angle from the sun (with the problem being that they made the shadow circular when it should be elongated). The eject turn around was just weird, but, then the way they animated it going up didn’t look right either.
The Japanese do more end-of-the-world scenarios than Hollywood.
Count to 10 on December 28, 2008 at 3:15 PM
But only as a figure of speech.
Count to 10 on December 28, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Chinese Version with added scenes…
Kaptain Amerika on December 28, 2008 at 3:27 PM
Maybe that’s what happens after Michael Moore eats too much Mexican food.
When he sits around the house, he sits around the house.
kingsjester on December 28, 2008 at 3:30 PM
AP, you impress easily, especially considering such old material.
This video has been on youtube for as long as mankind has been on the earth. Somebody just added a soundtrack. And not a very good one.
What’s worse, there are no asteroids of this magnitude in the solar system, and certainly none like this that are NEO, or earth crossing asteroids. Only Ceres is even remotely large enough to be spherical, and that is in a stable orbit far, far, away, so it more of a planetoid than an asteroid.
keep the change on December 28, 2008 at 3:31 PM
Calculated it yourself:
Earth Impact Effects Program
This on-line program will estimate the ejecta distribution, ground shaking, atmospheric blast wave, and thermal effects of an impact as well as the size of the crater produced.
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/
albill on December 28, 2008 at 3:32 PM
No, no it would not.
Any other moronic statements you feel the need to get off your chest?
Jim708 on December 28, 2008 at 3:34 PM
for you giant impact moon origin theory thinkers…
Kaptain Amerika on December 28, 2008 at 3:39 PM
No problemo!
We could just all buy massive amounts of carbon credits right before impact.
TheSitRep on December 28, 2008 at 3:39 PM
I tossed a 1000 mile wide asteroid at Earth, and it didn’t even change the axis tilt.
Of course, The crater was 700 miles deep and several thousand miles across. I ended up being ejected on impact.
Count to 10 on December 28, 2008 at 3:43 PM
………………….. you’re an idiot?
Seven Percent Solution on December 28, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Now that is an impact.
Count to 10 on December 28, 2008 at 3:49 PM
MMM-MMM-MMM!
Toasty!
pilamaye on December 28, 2008 at 3:51 PM
Being under the age of 60, I’m just not that attached to Pink Floyd. That must account for the nuance I lack.
Overall I liked the presentation but if it was me editing this clip, I’d knock at least a 1:30 off and sync it to the music of Doomsday Jesus by Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society. The second the rock hits the ocean would be the primal scream at first chorus? Dude.
(And seriously, let’s lay of all the atheist vs. Believer crap for one thread. Yeah we should’ve all prayed harder the magic invisible man in the sky to stop the asteroid and yeah you’re all going to hell with Dawkins and Hitchens. Ha! Ha! Oh how the comments from both sides are a total riot…)
ScottMcC on December 28, 2008 at 3:53 PM
…for a 4000 mile asteroid made of rock, impacting at 35 km/s at 30 degrees on solid rock.
This is fun.
Count to 10 on December 28, 2008 at 3:55 PM
Don’t feel you are an island onto yourself here, pal!
I’m in my mid 50’s and Pink Floyd has never been a favorite with me either. In fact, I’ve listened to Dark Side Of The Moon countless times and I’m still trying to figure out what all the shouting is about.
pilamaye on December 28, 2008 at 4:04 PM
LOL at all the comments in this thread. +10
What, no piece hanging by a visible thread in the sky (skip to 10:15)?
Well….I didn’t think it was all that outrageous. After all, Allahpundit himself is always saying “good lord”. And I mean pretty often.
Just sayin’.
inviolet on December 28, 2008 at 4:08 PM
In reality, by the time it reached the earth it would be the size of a Chihuahua’s head.
BL@KBIRD on December 28, 2008 at 4:17 PM
And if you thought the impact of HOPE was impressive…
My collie says:
CyberCipher on December 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM
?
Count to 10 on December 28, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Amazon Women on the Moon
Best… Movie…. EVAH!
Kini on December 28, 2008 at 4:30 PM
You are presuming that I give a rats behind what AP has to say inviolet. Guess that is what it is to lump people in a nice tidy group, like the language challenged seven percent does.
And Seven Percent? Too bad your grasp of language does not reach even the most minute level of a well written Holmes. Time for a new avatar maybe? One more reflective of your skills.
Jim708 on December 28, 2008 at 4:36 PM
But what are the odds of Ceres suddenly breaking orbit and trying to land in mid-pacific?
mojo on December 28, 2008 at 4:37 PM
You remember when The Wall came out but I really only recall when it was torn down. From a historical perspective, I recognize the significance of both but I’m really only emotionally attached to one. Especially after seeing that truly awful concert Roger Waters did in Berlin.
ScottMcC on December 28, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Seven Percent Solution, no I think an “Oh, shit.” would be enough.
I once read a piece about cockpit voice recordings, “Oh , shit” is the common response just before silence.
Pelayo on December 28, 2008 at 4:45 PM
“Breaking orbit” would require an interaction with another object. But I suppose you could try to estimate the tail of its position uncertainty that reaches earth, and try to find the order of magnitude of the probability. Either that or calculate the likelihood that the dark matter distribution will spontaneously arrange itself to provide the necessary interaction.
Count to 10 on December 28, 2008 at 4:47 PM
Not “Alla Akbar”?
Count to 10 on December 28, 2008 at 4:48 PM
The fact that the Earth is rotating under it suggests it wasn’t meant to portray an asteroid making a rapid approach. It’s about the size of the moon, so maybe the idea was that the Moon collided with something and it is now (somehow) slowly approaching the Earth. That would account for all molten material before the impact, and makes the choice of soundtrack especially apropos.
The graphics are pretty old technology. It would be nice to have a new one showing the Earth being deformed.
pedestrian on December 28, 2008 at 4:50 PM
An object that big might have noticeable tidal effects before collision.
Count to 10 on December 28, 2008 at 5:02 PM
I can hardly wait. When is it supposed to hit?
TC on December 28, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Yeah, I was hoping water might be pulled up off the Earth’s surface, but the Moon’s density is less than Earth’s so I don’t think that would happen.
pedestrian on December 28, 2008 at 5:13 PM
A great way to ruin a great song.
csdeven on December 28, 2008 at 5:15 PM
You haven’t heard the magic of syncing Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of OZ.
Truely Magical.
Kini on December 28, 2008 at 5:22 PM
I am such a geek. I have been re-watching this darned thing just to pick up on anomalies. Having said that:
01. Count to 10: my mistake about New York. I just saw the big green swath in the middle of a city and subconsciously thought of Central Park. Upon closer examination, you are correct and it is indeed Tokyo. However, the movement and shape of the shadow are still inconsistent with what would actually happen, no matter how you play with the angle of approach, size of the object, etc.
02. Pedestrian: your theory is an interesting one, but if you look at the clip about 1:00 in, you will see the actual Moon just above the horizon as the object hits Earth.
HTL on December 28, 2008 at 5:33 PM
This seems more like what I think Lord Obama’s going to do to America than what your opinion seems to be about the The One. You already lost faith in your man to save the world, AP?
klickink.wordpress.com on December 28, 2008 at 5:43 PM
Comment pages: 1 2 Next »