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  1. 15th February 2013, 21:56 #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    It probably wont hit anything important. (I'm hoping for Auckland)
    Thank you for your kind thoughts. We're hoping it doesn't hit us too...
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  2. 15th February 2013, 22:00 #17
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gremlin View Post
    Thank you for your kind thoughts. We're hoping it doesn't hit us too...
    Think of all the new roading Auckland would get afterwards though ...
    When life throws you a curve ... Lean into it ...
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  3. 15th February 2013, 22:02 #18
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gremlin View Post
    Thank you for your kind thoughts. We're hoping it doesn't hit us too...
    You'll have a place to off-road in the city
    I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
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  4. 15th February 2013, 22:05 #19
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zedder View Post
    Don't worry FJR, it's going to be 27,700 kms away as it passes by.
    I'll stay in bed then ... just to be on the safe side.
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  5. 15th February 2013, 22:08 #20
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    Quote Originally Posted by Motu View Post
    Mega disasters seem to only hit LA or New York, I think we are pretty safe here...so long as Peter Jackson doesn't read War of the Worlds.
    You don't live in Christchurch then ...
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    Personally I think the super volcano currently forming 1800 Kms north of NZ is more interesting.

    In a million years we're all going to be fucked.

    If the Herald has it right that is.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    I'll stay in bed then ... just to be on the safe side.
    The only problem is it might hit one of the satellites up there. I'm getting up early to check it out though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Road kill View Post
    Personally I think the super volcano currently forming 1800 Kms north of NZ is more interesting.

    In a million years we're all going to be fucked.

    If the Herald has it right that is.
    ...that reads 100-200 million in the article I read...fairly moot that is though...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zedder View Post
    The only problem is it might hit one of the satellites up there. I'm getting up early to check it out though.
    Ours or there's ... ??? Let me know how it goes ...
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  10. 16th February 2013, 01:50 #25
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    and then there was this
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=10865697
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    Quote Originally Posted by spookytooth View Post
    and then there was this
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=10865697
    Damit...Bruce obvoiusly didn't push the button.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zedder View Post
    The only problem is it might hit one of the satellites up there. I'm getting up early to check it out though.

    if 0830 is early, you need a real job...
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    Quote Originally Posted by slofox View Post
    Many years ago I saw a movie of Neville Shute's book, "On The Beach" (Nuclear disaster and end of the world scenario). The last place to be wiped out was Orstralia (makers didn't know NZ existed of course).
    Not quite right. Book references Devenport.
    Only it is an Aussie author and the book is set in the 'lucky country'
    "I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it." -- Erwin Schrodinger talking about quantum mechanics.
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    Well I never got up to see it... peeked through the curtains and saw cloud and figured typical, it's always cloudy when things like this go by.
    I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ellipsis View Post
    ...that reads 100-200 million in the article I read...fairly moot that is though...
    I might be dead by then...
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