Ridicules...it's never going to happen.
Posted on 11/16/2019 2:39:38 PM PST by BenLurkin
Yeah, I know you’re rolling your eyes – another day, another killer asteroid. You’ll probably be thinking: ‘This is just paranoid riffraff.’
Well… it is, really. However, there is actually a dangerous lump of space rock barrelling towards us, and there is a (hilariously) small chance it could wallop our planet.
NASA first discovered the asteroid back in 2009. Over the past decade, the space agency’s automated asteroid watching system – known as Sentry – has been tasked with keeping an eye on it.
Don’t worry yourself too much though. NASA place the odds of JF1 actually hitting us at 0.026%, therefore there’s more than a 99% chance that it will not. I doubt Paddy Power will let me put a tenner on.
(Excerpt) Read more at unilad.co.uk ...
Five times bigger than the Chelyabinsk meteor
0.26% is about a 400 to 1 shot. Not a negligible danger, in my opinion.
“Can we pick the city? “
I’ll send the San Fagcisco coordinates to the asteroid..
And dang, wouldn’t you know that’s when my Visa card expires! Crimminey!
I say we paint a big, beautiful bullseye on the outside of the Capitol dome...
That’s my birthday. Heck of a send off
Can we choose the city?
So the smart thing to do, if you live in a city, is to drive out to the country on May 6, 2022. (That will be a Friday.)
However, abacus-supported recalculations by the NASA Public Relations & Propaganda Department changed it to a "near" miss for both Earth & the moon...
To make matters even worse, it will return on an even more dangerous trajectory seven years later on April 13, 2036...
Other institutions (who must toe the government's "line" to protect their funding) have also, several times since 2006, found additional evidence that supports the line that there is no danger...
We can probably evaluate these after-the-fact findings in the same light as the way all U.S. communists manage to "find" additional votes in strange places that overturn an original vote count and result...
Just saying...
“However, there is actually a dangerous lump of space rock barrelling towards us, and there is a (hilariously) small chance it could wallop our planet.”
That is why we need to confiscate all income and savings from all people of earth to pay for efforts to redirect the “lump”.
All “lump” deniers need to be exterminated.
An Inconvenient “lump”.
The speed with which asteroids travel through space is well known. It is 15.5 miles per second or 55,800 MPH.
The angle of attack through our atmosphere is a critical factor indeed. The steeper the approach the more likely a solid asteroid is to impact the planet.
The shallower the approach the more time it spends super heating through the atmosphere. The impact can be a glancing blow and a bounce off the atmosphere or, a less explosive impact with the planet.
A porous object in a steep approach with will likely explode violently high in the atmosphere and be one hell of a light show. A solid object with significant mass of this size is bad news for all in the general area of impact.
Ridicules...it's never going to happen.
Make sure Trump is in Mar-a-Lago at the time.
When they call it Wormwood, I’ll begin to get more concerned.
Besides, with those odds, it would be more likely than a woman or African American being made POTUS. Doh! /s
Can we aim it at Washington D.C.?
Seattle IS an accident waiting to happen. The benevolent gods of space are giving it due consideration.
May 6, 2022, huh?
I’ll have to remember to go all in and short the market that day.
I nominate Mecca.
Bpearthwatch to drone on in his stoner voice about how this asteroid is going to kill us all.
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