[blam]

(Ahem) When they realized that there wasn't anything we could do to stop it from hitting us, they just said it would miss. No panic that way.

File this under:

It's Always Something. (IAS)

[brownsfan]

“To put that in some perspective, the moon is 240,000 miles away and several GPS satellites orbit at 26,000 miles. So, the asteroid will come within orbits of satellites. No need to worry though, NASA assures us that their calculations show that it will not strike the earth. We’re from the government and we’re here to help you.

Let’s hope NASA double-checked their math.”

Would that be the NASA that forgot to convert from feet to meters? Or would that be the NASA that is shilling global warming and muslim outreach? Or maybe that’s the NASA without launch capability to get a person to the space station?

[TheRhinelander]

Just wait until the comet in 2014. People will get so freaked about that it’s gonna be silly. It’s supposed to be as bright or brighter than a full moon.

Can’t wait for the idiots to go crazy,

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I guess the Mayans were off by a couple months.

[Hang'emAll]

So the Mayans were 2 months off.

Rounding error. They can’t be blamed.

[baddog 219]

Not to worry?... Our government that brought you Fast and Furious, wouldn't lie....

[babygene]

Maybe it will hit mecca. Twenty or thirty megatons should rap up that nasty problem...

[struggle]

Not to discount it, buy at 2 megatons it’s not much of a doomsday meteor.

[Resolute Conservative]

Maybe it will clear out some of the orbital junk that it up there.

[Red Badger]

No need to worry though, NASA assures us that their calculations show that it will not strike the earth. We're from the government and we're here to help you. Let's hope NASA double-checked their math.

Let's hope that NASA didn't use a mix of metric and English data...........

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

I just heard from a good source Washington, District of Crooks, is ground zero.

[TexasCajun]

Maybe the Myan’s were a few days off?

[Disambiguator]

Reminds me of a story I've read.

[who knows what evil?]

No need to worry though, NASA assures us that their calculations show that it will not strike the earth. We're from the government and we're here to help you.

Do we have a more reliable source?

[Safrguns]

Ummm.... I wonder if Nasa’s calculations include the impact of earth’s gravity on the asteroid’s path?

[C210N]

YOU can test your OWN theory of earth's destruction with this nifty simulation model. Just plug in your very own numbers, which you of course determined from a consensus of all scientists you know, of the size, direction, velocity of an asteroid, and then see what happens!

Hat-tip Imperial College, London.

Earth Impact Effects Program

[Cyman]

I think we need to get Congress to immediately fund a new TARP(Take Asteroids on Redirect Path)program.

When in doubt , throw cash.

[DannyTN]

“There’s always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT! “ - MIB

[SkyDancer]

[Venturer]

No sense in worrying about something I cannot do anything about. Obama will save us.

[djf]

Let’s hope a good-sized CME between now and then doesn’t tweak the orbit...