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This asteroid has a 1 in 40 chance of hitting earth in 2029, it could also hit in 2036.
The Asteroid Collision Blog ^
| March 13th, 2020
| Paul McBurney Jr
Posted on 03/14/2020 10:07:20 AM PDT by WebHankerchief22
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To: Future Snake Eater
The blogger wrote it as 1 in 40 to make it seem scary on-purpose, but that as a % is 2%.
Its orbit was calculated long ago, and the blogger is just recycling a story already ran over a year ago.
To: WebHankerchief22
So a 2.5% chance of hitting us. Well look at the bright side, not more coronavirus. 8>)
To: Salamander
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03/14/2020 10:42:32 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(Democrats are always the problem, never the answer.)
To: WebHankerchief22; Salamander; humblegunner
The Asteroid Collision Blog
Maybe it will just hit bloggers.
To: BluegrassCardinal
Which means you have a 97.5% chance of surviving the asteroid, at least in 2029. 8>)
To: WebHankerchief22
And they’ll call it Wormwood?
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posted on
03/14/2020 10:45:53 AM PDT
by
Bullish
(Covfefe Happens)
To: WebHankerchief22
Doesnt matter. 10+ years and we’re all goners.
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posted on
03/14/2020 10:49:30 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: abb
Gosh, with all the unused hand sanitizer and rubbing alcohol and toilet papers in our homes...POOF!!!
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posted on
03/14/2020 10:52:24 AM PDT
by
polymuser
(It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
To: Future Snake Eater
“What possible external influences on this rock would prevent us from knowing right now?”
Ricochet off another random asteroid? Implanted jet pack? Worm hole?
To: polymuser
And some, I suspect, have stockpiled copious amounts of other forms of alcohol!
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posted on
03/14/2020 10:54:57 AM PDT
by
abb
To: Larry Lucido
Errors in measurement! Exact only exists in textbooks.
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posted on
03/14/2020 10:57:33 AM PDT
by
Reily
To: abb
Yep, and that’s me, but I forgot to include that ;) Cheers!
If a meteor was known to on a collision course, what be the numbing spirit of choice? For me, a very expensive Scotch.
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posted on
03/14/2020 11:00:53 AM PDT
by
polymuser
(It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
To: polymuser
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posted on
03/14/2020 11:02:18 AM PDT
by
abb
To: VanDeKoik
Guess Ill be buying some more shotgun shells.
Tie some helium balloons to my lawn chair and act as the first line of defense.
Space Force!
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posted on
03/14/2020 11:06:47 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Quick! Someone inform QAnon!!Check the 40th drop dated on May 8 (8 x 5 = 40) where Q says "rock and roll" so it's obviously all part of The Plan.
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03/14/2020 11:08:24 AM PDT
by
Future Snake Eater
(Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1957)
To: WebHankerchief22
It doesn’t matter. We are all going to die of Coronavirus before that.
To: WebHankerchief22
I think I’ll go buy a new baseball glove and see if I can catch it.
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posted on
03/14/2020 11:11:13 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
To: WebHankerchief22
Ah yes... There's Apophis to worry about... It certainly poses more of a threat the globe has been exposed to for many, many, many, many, many years... (Excluding the klintoons and the obungholes)...
Amazing example of how the government lies...
First sighting (2004) predicted a 1-in-40 (2.7%) chance of collision...
Then they panicked and recalculated it (using the precursor to Million Man Math) and reduced the odds by a couple of orders of magnitude...
Now, apparently, they are back to 1-in-40 (2.6%)
If one reads the FR comments about this in December 2004 and throughout 2005, FR consensus-predictions were, as usual, correct...
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posted on
03/14/2020 11:32:46 AM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
To: campaignPete R-CT
Who said that I wanted her to?
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posted on
03/14/2020 1:22:25 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
To: WebHankerchief22
Homo sapiens has been around at least 200,000 years, and earlier humans populated the earth much longer than that. In all of human history we don't know of any asteroid hitting the earth (unless the Tunguska event in Siberia was one). The first asteroid was discovered in 1801 and it's only in recent decades that astronomers have been finding them in such large numbers and have been able to predict how close one would get to the earth.
Odds are that no sizable asteroid will hit the earth this century. Even if one did, odds are that it would splash into the ocean.
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