"I will personally see to the destruction of the Tauri home world!"
Well, here we are, we've done nothing in space for years. The experiments on the last few space shuttle missions pretty much sounded like the astronauts were taking bar bets, our country is in debt -- BUT--- Magically, the U.S., and bunches of other countries have found the time, energy, and bucks to launch mission after mission to asteroids/comets. Huh?
WHAT IS UP??!! Is it becuase of little Apophis? Or has someone in some observatory found something even nastier coming? And they won't tell us, becuase they'd fear we'd panic. And these days, yes, people would panic big time.
ANyway, do you folks agree something weird is going on? I mean, aren't 2 new missions set to lifet off soon? One from the E.U., and I forget the other. japan is there now. This is freaky.
We are so dead... ha
We've got three missions to Mars and 2 to Jupiter They must be heading our way too!
What good would panicking do? Just leave........./s
As long as it lands in France, what do we care?
Notice they didn't say what the "outside chance" amounts to in percentages. I think I'll not worry about this one.
Look, I'll answer this post soon enough but first, I want everyone to know that I am still not prepared for the 'Bird Flue'! I'ts just not fair!!
Is this the Planet X that is coming?
100,000 more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb does not scare me.
Let me know if the asteroid passes through the keyhole in 2029.
Well hopefully I will be out of town if we are hit by an earth destroying asteroid
Nah... The Earth is going to collide with the celestial axis.
There goes the neighborhood. I was thinking about moving anyway.
If true then it sounds like they're working on the problem so I'm not going to panic. I will however get an early start on the lootin.
Article: Apophis, which has an outside chance of hitting the Earth in 2036
From a NASA website (http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/a99942.html: Impact Probability (cumulative) 0.018%
Sounds like someone is going a little crazy on the headline.
When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
Let me see, I'll be 93 something to look forward to.
"I will personally see to the destruction of the Tauri home world!"
With 30 years lead time, I'm not going to worry about it. If we are ever capable of deflecting an asteroid, 25 years from now is the time to worry.
For now, I'm going to think that this could be a good deal.....as in resources coming within easy reach just about the time we'll be ready to take advantage of it.
Apophis - an alien driven space taxi coming to take all believers away.
Get your spankin' white Nikes, jogging suit, and poisoned pudding ready.
This was the ride that the Heaven's Gate crew wanted. They nixed themselves for the wrong rock.
Is George Noory all over this?
I was driving and listening to him the other night...do you ever notice that he can have a guest that will blab on and on for an hour, and then at the end, you have slightest idea what the hell he was talking about? George always seems to know though, as his gobbledygook questions always elicit such enthusiasm from the guest.
There's not a thing we could do about it anyway.
However, the chances of this thing hitting us in the foreseeable future are about 1 in 8000 so I wouldn't get too upset.
Ping.