Ridicules...it's never going to happen.Quick, let’s tax it.
Can you blame Global Warming for this?
Coffee!
The moon is estimated to be ~4.53 billion years old. There are estimated to be ~5,185 craters on the moon that are larger than 12 miles across. If (and that’s a big if), asteroid strikes occur evenly spaced over time, an asteroid strike large enough to cause a crater larger than 12 miles across would, on average, be expected to occur once every 873,674 years.
There are estimated to be ~1,000,000 craters larger than ½ mile across on the moon. An asteroid strike large enough to cause those would then, on average, be expected to occur once every 4,530 years.
There are estimated to be >500,000,000 craters larger than 10 meters across on the moon. Using the same simplistic calculation, an asteroid strike large enough to cause those would, on average, be expected to occur once every 9.06 years.
Obviously this is very simplistic, and extrapolating from this to Earth also simplistic. For example, the moon has a very thin, essentially non-existent atmosphere – thus more meteors and asteroids would be expected to make it to the surface than on the Earth. Also, there may have been periods of very high numbers of strikes, and then lulls. At any rate, strikes do happen, and at some point it will be our time.
Trump’s fault.
0.26% is about a 400 to 1 shot. Not a negligible danger, in my opinion.
And dang, wouldn’t you know that’s when my Visa card expires! Crimminey!
That’s my birthday. Heck of a send off
Can we choose the city?
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”.
Ridicules...it's never going to happen.Can we aim it at Washington D.C.?
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.
Why is NASA bothering to announce this crap
There are a whole bunch of ideas on how to divert asteroids, and some of them are quite cheap. So why not send up some inexpensive probes to try out these ideas? Pick asteroids that are not too near Earth and measure what effects it has.
One simple idea is to paint half the asteroid white, called the Yarkovsky effect. The effect results from the fact that asteroids heat up as they bask in the sun’s light. Of course like many of these means, it just moves the asteroid a tiny fraction off course, but over millions of miles that adds up.
Hope it hits NYC.
If it hits a west coast city it will be doing us a favor.