NASA Announce City-Killing Asteroid Could [.026% chance] Hit Earth On May 6, 2022

unilad ^ | 11/19/2019 | Cameron Frew

[BenLurkin]

Yeah, I know you’re rolling your eyes – another day, another killer asteroid. You’ll probably be thinking: ‘This is just paranoid riffraff.’

Well… it is, really. However, there is actually a dangerous lump of space rock barrelling towards us, and there is a (hilariously) small chance it could wallop our planet.

NASA first discovered the asteroid back in 2009. Over the past decade, the space agency’s automated asteroid watching system – known as Sentry – has been tasked with keeping an eye on it.

Don’t worry yourself too much though. NASA place the odds of JF1 actually hitting us at 0.026%, therefore there’s more than a 99% chance that it will not. I doubt Paddy Power will let me put a tenner on.

[rktman]

Quick. Someone call re-greta-bull on the Bat(sh*t crazy) phone.

[Vaquero]

Can we pick the city? So many possibilities (snark)

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Bring it on B*tch. I'm ready for it. Show me what you've got. < /sarc >

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

My birthday. Swell.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Please, PLEASE be the Sweet Meteor of Death! This world is NOT worth saving anymore!

DANG!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Sorry for using the wrong ping list in #6. Here ya go!

DANG!

[Candor7]

Point that sucker right at Chicago or San Francisco

[Secret Agent Man]

Good, let’s really screw up the climate nutjobs who think they have 11 years left.

[BradyLS]

On the outside chance that it strikes the earth. There’s about a 75% chance that it lands in an ocean.

[Gideon7]

I’m just happy NASA is actually doing something useful, not frittering away their funding on Muslim outreach and climate-change hysteria.

[Alas Babylon!]

328 feet across. That’s pretty big. The speed and angle of attack is an unknown factor, though.

It will miss. I WANT it to miss.

[familyop]

My only question with these stories is, “How large is it?” Most of them aren’t large enough to be worth mention. Something a mile or more in diameter might be interesting with a hit.

[BradyLS]

Supposedly, we’re all dead already from some sure-fire catastrophe or another that never materialized. There was a thread here some weeks/months back wherein each posting “ghost” declared which disaster took them.

For example, I “died” in the 1980’s during a nuclear exchange!

[OrangeHoof]

Meanwhile, congressional Democrats are on their 5th impeachment inquiry...

[Robert DeLong]

Is it wrong to pray that it breaks into three pieces and hits New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles simultaneously, and that the timetable is moved up to October 2020? 8>)

[GreenHornet]

Can we pick the city?

If it hits Detroit, it will cause millions of dollars worth of improvements.

[Openurmind]

As long as it doesn’t change course because of some unknown factor.

[Secret Agent Man]

Hell there are people who think all this is a virtual reality. So what if everything goes, then?

[TianaHighrider]

Better odds than hitting the lottery.