[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.

[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.”

[Red Badger]

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

[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.

[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.