Animation of a GIANT impact

This animation, from NASA/JPL-Caltech, depicts an object the size of the Moon impacting a planet the size of Mercury. This is based on observations of the Spitzer Space Telescope.

Original: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/spitzer-20090810.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• impact
• planet
• mercury
• moon
• spitzer
• nasa
• jpl

[ektrules]

OMFG. Why is it whenever anything scientific is discussed on the internets, religion starts being discussed. Science and religion are completely different things. Scientific theories are based on induction, while religion is based on faith. Religion focuses on the way people should behave, and science focuses on understanding the natural world. They have very little to do with each-other.

[TheGFtrooper]

lol the planet turned into the sun

[TheRandomFruitGuy]

Too gaint much?

[GelidFields]

painless apocalypse

[Xis03]

FUCK YEAH! no sound in space *-*

[askjiir]

That's scary.

[supervegito2277]

@Spewnificus science is qualified guessing... very quallified, but i havent seen an example were they havent known to say "sorry we were wrong".

[Raptor232]

20 people were on one of these planets when they hit each other.

[TheDanielaMarta]

asshole he sucked it

[TOSViolator]

@n85639

That would be... Your mother?

[jaMMerZzz764]

@Spewnificus Good point, people like Creationists claim that Science is wrong because it never agrees with itself, when in fact that is Science's greatest strength! Good job on the rational thinking mate! :D