Asteroid ‘to fly past Earth closer than the moon tomorrow [today],’ scientists warn

yahoo ^ | 04/17/2019 | Ron Waugh

[BenLurkin]

Spotted 9 days before it's pass

[raygunfan]

so why was the headline scientist ‘warn’, when the story says earth is entirely safe?

[TomServo]

Because it’s typical “news” scaremongering - ad revenue generation.

[bgill]

Nine days is not enough time. Just wait until the next one that is dead on track to Earth.

[Leaning Right]

> so why was the headline scientist ‘warn’, when the story says earth is entirely safe? <

A clever (and slightly dishonest) way to get you to read the article. But at least they didn’t say “This will shock you!” or “Just use this one weird trick.”

[I want the USA back]

“scientists warn”
“Earth will be entirely safe”
What’s to warn, when they knew there was no danger?

[Red Badger]

That’s so just in case you happen to be in that area, at that time, you have been warned...............

[C210N]

Agreed. Sounds like a good time to put off any prior travel plans to the Moon. [Or, delay your trip a day if you happen to be returning to Earth]

[z3n]

“scientists warn”
“Earth will be entirely safe”
What’s to warn, when they knew there was no danger?

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Because it never would have been posted here or noticed by anyone if it was published as the original draft copy was submitted; ‘Asteroid to fly by, scientists notify’

Editors don’t get paid to vet truth anymore. Editors are paid to find a competitive level of sensationalism to draw clicks, while avoiding embarrassing mistakes or legal burden.

[rjsimmon]

[itzmygun]

so why was the headline scientist ‘warn’, when the story says earth is entirely safe?

Cause globalism. They love the idea of a scenario in which the entire world is threatened and all the people of the world can come together, hug, and work on the problem as one.

[WKUHilltopper]

Stupid ‘pressitutes’. What’s to warn if it is passing by??

[Berlin_Freeper]

It’s the close ones that leave people traumatized.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

We are now able to land satellites on asteroids. How cool would it be to land a satellite on this one and watch the earth flyby? Even cooler would be to capture the actual collision.

[az_gila]

“Nine days is not enough time. Just wait until the next one that is dead on track to Earth.”

I believe that was actually 9 days before to the Russian asteroid was spotted...:^)

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

If this one or another asteroid hits Earth, assuming anyone is left alive, the newspaper headlines will read....

“Asteroid Hits Earth. Minorities, Women, Children, LGBQT Hardest Hit.”

[upchuck]

so why was the headline scientist ‘warn’, when the story says earth is entirely safe?

Because it's from Yahoo. Click bait web site.

Interesting that space.com has nothing (at least I could find nothing) about this.

[Lurker]

“Daddy would have gotten us Uzis.”

L

[DuncanWaring]

www.spaceweather.com has it.

[upchuck]

Thanks for the link.