Slight chance asteroid hits earth in 2032

[nycfan]

[1% ain’t nothing for something like this]

“… Scientists put the odds of a strike at slightly more than 1%.

“We are not worried at all, because of this 99 percent chance it will miss,” said Paul Chodas, director of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. “But it deserves attention.” …”

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Will anyone competent be left to monitor it?

 

[1moretimeagain]

Finally a little good news.

 

[05C40]

2032? I'll be 78 then. If they need volunteers to go on a one-way trip to plant explosives, I volunteer. If they need an old man to tell one pointless story after another until the asteroid can't take anymore, changes course, and plunges directly into the sun just to shut me up, I volunteer.

 

[tarheel931]

2032? I'll be 88 then. If they need volunteers to go on a one-way trip to plant explosives, I volunteer. If they need an old man to tell one pointless story after another until the asteroid can't take anymore, changes course, and plunges directly into the sun just to shut me up, I volunteer.

 

[aGDevil2k]

 

[CFordUNC]

Surely the Space Force will save us.

 

[Healing]

Finally a little good news.

Eh. It’s only the size of a football field. Need bigger.

 

[hedge]

Eh. It’s only the size of a football field. Need bigger.

 

[HintonJamesHeel]

Slight chance? I understand it’s 1% but complete devastation of a big chunk of land means that’s a massive chance.

 

[WaynetheDrain]

[1% ain’t nothing for something like this]

“… Scientists put the odds of a strike at slightly more than 1%.

“We are not worried at all, because of this 99 percent chance it will miss,” said Paul Chodas, director of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. “But it deserves attention.” …”

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Will anyone competent be left to monitor it?

Can it please get here sooner?

 

[UNCatTech]

[1% ain’t nothing for something like this]

“… Scientists put the odds of a strike at slightly more than 1%.

“We are not worried at all, because of this 99 percent chance it will miss,” said Paul Chodas, director of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. “But it deserves attention.” …”

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Will anyone competent be left to monitor it?

If we knew for sure that it would hit, that would be life changing. I'd quit work tomorrow and start spending all of my retirement money. I could live really well for 7 years.

 

[Huh?]

Thanks Obama.

 

[nycfan]

Love this film

 

[nycfan]

If we knew for sure that it would hit, that would be life changing. I'd quit work tomorrow and start spending all of my retirement money. I could live really well for 7 years.

Same

 

[ColdBlueSteel]

Same

From what I read it’s not big enough to be an earth killer

 

[nycfan]

For what I read it’s not big enough to be an earth killer

No it is not, just engaging in some whistling through the graveyard humor. Sounds like it would be more like the Tunguska event, if that, though in a much more heavily populated earth. A bit of a where would it crash bingo would come into play.

 

[WaynetheDrain]

No problem. We got this.

 

[4thgenheel]

No it is not, just engaging in some whistling through the graveyard humor. Sounds like it would be more like the Tunguska event, if that, though in a much more heavily populated earth. A bit of a where would it crash bingo would come into play.

if it were going to hit us, surely we (humanity) would try to do something about it beforehand? feels like nuking an asteroid out in space might stand some chance of working unlike, say, nuking a hurricane just off the US coast.

 

[korgguy1971]

if it were going to hit us, surely we (humanity) would try to do something about it beforehand? feels like nuking an asteroid out in space might stand some chance of chance of working unlike, say, nuking a hurricane just off the US coast.

No worries, Trump would simply alter its trajectory with a sharpie.

 

[nycfan]