[DIRTYSECRET]

Global warming will do that to you

[eyeamok]

Time to fire up the Meteor Cannon (linear accelerator)

[Karma_Sherab]

We need a new tax!

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

More space rocks seem to be approaching Earth’s territory

Pretty good - I didn't have to read beyond, not just the first sentence, but the first phrase in the first sentence, to come to my 'I stopped reading right there' threshold.

[MuttTheHoople]

Looks like a job for this crew.

[butlerweave]

Experts predict that it may happen around the years 2175 or 2196.

so why should we care ,by then they’ll probably have things to scoop them up or maybe the Global Warming Nuts will have destroyed the Planet by then

[BipolarBob]

Is that the one nicknamed “Wormwood”?

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . experts predict that RQ36 may strike the planet in the last quarter of the 22nd century, which is still decades away."

Yeah, as in 150 years away. It's a moot point, since "global warming" or "climate change" is supposed to destroy us in the next 6-11 years.

[stars & stripes forever]

Experts predict that it may happen around the years 2175 or 2196.

[HangnJudge]

...RQ36 may strike the planet in the last quarter of the 22nd century, which is still decades away

Many decades...

[ZOOKER]

I'm not worried.

AOC says we won't be here anyway.

[infool7]

Of course the article doesn’t say if 2019

is a sixth year or on what day

it makes its closest approach but

185k miles is a darn close shave

for something that big and fast.

7

[SkyDancer]

Yikes!!!!

[brownsfan]

If there’s nothing that we can do, I don’t want to know.

[eyeamok]

Since we only have a little over 11 years until all life on this planet ends from Climate Change, why are we wasting money on crap that is irrelevant??

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I am more worried about hemorrhoids of the walking type that have been plaguing Earth for years: Pelosi, Obama, Biden, Schumer, War-Hen, Bernie, Northam, et. al., than I am worried about an asteroid that has a small chance of striking the earth a century and a half from now.

[txnativegop]

why are people always screaming the sky is falling? this thing is a century and a half away.

[samtheman]

As to when it can strike Earth, experts predict that RQ36 may strike the planet in the last quarter of the 22nd century, which is still decades away. Experts predict that it may happen around the years 2175 or 2196.
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If we don’t have an extremely detailed and intricate solar system infrastructure by that time, then we won’t deserve to live.

If we do have an extremely detailed and intricate solar system infrastructure, this will just be more grist for the solar system mining industry and will be welcomed as a gift from the stars.

[dforest]

I hope it happens before I climb up in my closet to put all that Christmas decor away. *sigh*

[Fido969]

This asteroid measures about 1,640 feet in diameter, which is equal to the size of the Empire State Building in New York.

I had no idea the Empire State Building was 1640 feet in diameter.