Originally Posted by KRL

600 Ft. waves? I guess that means no Internext Show in Florida.



Actually this kind of thing will eventually happen one day. If you do some research on NEO's there are a shit load of them out there and all it takes is one and it will be a catastrophe unlike anything seen since the last civilization killer 65 million years ago.

Here's the info from NASA on the comet in this post:

During the 2006 return to perihelion, which for the main fragment C takes place on 2006 June 6 (just inside the Earth?s orbit), the comet began to fragment into more than 30 additional pieces. All of the observed fragments in 2006 will pass relatively close to the Earth during the interval May 12 through May 28 but none will pass closer than 5.5 million miles. These passages of the fragments past the Earth offer astronomers an excellent opportunity to examine the cometary breakup process and hopefully these observations will shed some light on just why some comets disrupt. Apparently some comets have very weak internal structures and perhaps rapid rotation or the pressure of vaporizing interior ices, as the comet approaches the warming sun, causes these breakup events.

NASA's NEO Program Info: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/