Action urged to deal with asteroid likely to hit Earth (Please read and respond to my comment)

Todayonline ^ | 12-08-05 | Guardian

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LONDON — Scientists are monitoring the progress of a 390m-wide asteroid discovered last year that is potentially on a collision course with the planet, and are imploring governments to decide on a strategy for dealing with it.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has estimated that an impact from Apophis, which has an outside chance of hitting the Earth in 2036, would release more than 100,000 times the energy released in the nuclear blast over Hiroshima.

Thousands of square kilometres would be directly affected by the blast but the whole of the Earth would see the effects of the dust released into the atmosphere. In Egyptian myth, Apophis was the ancient spirit of evil and destruction, a demon that was determined to plunge the world into eternal darkness.

The experts fear that there is very little time left to decide.

[righttackle44]

"Nah... The Earth is going to collide with the celestial axis."

Maybe those guys from The Matrix can help us. If they start digging now and throwing the dirt really high, they can probably dig away the entire asteroid by the time it gets here.