Verne shot.......scary stuff

If you think you?ve seen it all, just picture this: your entire country, launched into space. Sounds weird, right? Still, it could happen any day, scientists say. In fact: the country-launching thing may be responsible for the death of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago.

Not too many people know about it. And perhaps it?s better that way. For if a new, bizarre theory has it right, the dinosaurs weren?t killed by a meteor impact after all -- but by a much scarier phenomenon, known as a ?Verneshot?.

And that?s not all. If Verneshots are for real, the dreaded phenomenon should happen again one day. Or, who knows, tomorrow.

That doomsday will begin like just any other. But then, suddenly, you?ll hear a big, rumbling noise -- that deep, roaring, earthquake kind of sound. And then, there?s a MASSIVE explosion. It will be a disaster unlike anything ever witnessed by mankind.

The earth literally caves in underneath your feet. Next thing you know, you find yourself falling into this colossal, gaping hole, many kilometers deep and hundreds of kilometers wide. You, your house, yes: your entire country is sucked in. Deep down below, you might just be able to see the red hot flicker of the Earth?s restless bowels.

And if that spoils your day -- just wait. For deep down underneath you, the gaping hole starts to collapse. Starting from below, the crater squeezes tight, like some ridiculously large gullet contracting. Traveling at the speed of sound, the squeezing comes straight at you.


Incoming!: What goes up, must come down

And then, it?s: POP! You?re blasted out of the hole, like a piece of wet soap, catapulted out of someone's hand. And you?re not the only one that is launched. In fact, your entire country pops out, along with tonnes and tonnes and tonnes of rock and soil. The debris -- and you -- fly off into the stratosphere.

Let?s face it: by now, you?re probably dead. But for arguments sake, let?s say you?re not. Next thing you know, you find yourself hovering over the Earth, like some oddball DIY astronaut, sitting on a chunk of debris. You fly and fly, and then, just when you?re beginning to appreciate the view -- oh boy, going doooooooown!

The Earth?s gravity pulls you back in again. You impact on the other side of the planet, together with your entire country. Ka-boom!

And that?s the end of it. Or not quite: the planet is a complete mess. Where your country once was, a huge lake of lava, a ?flood basalt?, blobs out of the ground. The atmosphere is suffocated with soot and sulfur. The ozone layer is wiped away.

And on the other side of the planet, things aren?t any better. Where you and your meteor have impacted, a vast crater remains. A massive shockwave travels across the globe, setting the atmosphere on fire. And when the fires dim, the Earth?s climate is plunged into a numbing nuclear winter, because of smoke blocking the sun. Obviously, humanity never stood a chance against this double-whammy. Most likely, everything bigger than an insect dies.


But are Verneshots for real?


Where No Bullet Has Gone Before: In Jules Verne's 'Journey To The Moon', a huge cannon shoots a capsule to the moon.

By now, you probably understand why the German geologists who described the disaster in 2004 named it ?Verneshot?. Jules Verne was the writer who once dreamt up a cannon capable of shooting rockets to the moon. And a HUGE cannon, that?s exactly what the Verneshot is. Well, kind of.

But could it be true? Can we really end up on the other side of the planet? Surprise, surprise: that possibility is real. In fact, there?s tantalizing evidence that the Earth is struck by Verneshots at least four times before.

For starters, you should know that the prehistoric past of our planet shows a very weird pattern. Four times in a row, almost all life on Earth suddenly vanished. Just like that.

Remind me to take my camera.

Saw the special last night on the history channel about the meteorite that could hit the Earth at any time and destroy everything.

Been looking for that one since around 1965.

comeone lady.. you've freaked "out" by a "flash anim.".... and you wont get freaked out but your "country goes up in sec" and landed somewher else..??
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this article is "true"

Pretty scarry stuff Id say! whew I sure hope I am already gone if it ever does happen.

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