[dangus]

In fairness, 2019 NotOK would have been much scarier.

[cuban leaf]

There is a great book called Red Thunder in which-—

Spoiler alert!!!!

-—A horribly autistic guy invents a device that allows close to speed of light travel for virtually no cost. At one point a “meteor” slams into the Atlantic ocean off the Florida coast at almost the speed of light, causing terrible mayhem. Turns out it was terrorists that left a few years before and then turned around and came back on a suicide mission.

But the point was that is something is headed toward us at the speed of light, or close to it, we’ll never see it coming, no matter how big it is.

Of course, light speed travel is believed to be impossible, but nobody really knows how close to it you could get.

What about a meteor going half the speed of light?

[Raycpa]

Imagine the ones we never detect.

[Mr. Lucky]

Have they determined, yet, how this is President Trumps fault?

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[null and void]

Emily Lakdawalla: “It is NOT failure to leave academia.”

And she’s smokin’ hot.

Too young, too married. Story of my life *sigh*

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

All that matters is.. Do you trust God?

[Big Red Badger]

You Never
Hear the
One that
Gets You!

[RayChuang88]

The big concern is more than just a meteor impacting the ground. There’s always a chance a meteor about 30-50 feet wide could enter the Earth’s atmosphere at 34,000 mph and then explode just over a mile off the ground with the explosive force of a W80 nuclear warhead (150 KT yield). If that happens over a city everything within a 1.5 mile radius of the explosion point will be destroyed.

[GOPJ]

"It should worry us all quite frankly," he said. "It's not a Hollywood movie. It is a clear and present danger."

These things are not clear and present danger -- if they were we'd see cities all over the world that had been hit over the past thousand years.

[G Larry]

Worry if you must, but the idea we could do anything about it, is nonsense.

No, nuclear intercepts or "steering" are NOT options!

[Pearls Before Swine]

“Surprise!”

[Little Pig]

This asteroid is the universe just asking us: “so, how’s that space program coming along?”

[bgill]

He’ll never know what hit him.

[from occupied ga]

Sharks in the ocean don’t hurt you? The author should go swimming more around New Smyrna beach in Florida. There are on average 30 shark attacks annually in Florida. Besides hasn’t the author ever seen sharknado?

[Ozark Tom]

Asteroid 2019 OK will be back in 2024, and repeat an approach every 5 to 10 years.