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To: shadowman99
I'm holding off on joining Netflix. If the world ends and there are days left in the month, I ain't losin out!
2 posted on
12/26/2004 8:38:20 PM PST by
Darkwolf377
(Meeting lunacy with lunacy since 1965.)
To: shadowman99
Anybody ever read a great novel from the 1970's called Luicifer's Hammer by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven? Awesome book on point (nearly--concerns a comet) with this thread!
3 posted on
12/26/2004 8:40:57 PM PST by
ExSoldier
(Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
To: shadowman99
So what? Let's party like it's 1999.
4 posted on
12/26/2004 8:42:19 PM PST by
HighWheeler
("The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato)
To: shadowman99
Bruce Willis... Please go to a white courtesy phone for a message.
7 posted on
12/26/2004 8:45:43 PM PST by
nhoward14
(Freedom costs a buck-o-five.)
To: shadowman99
Wait a sec -- the first time this story was posted, the odds were 1/300. Why the change??
8 posted on
12/26/2004 8:45:56 PM PST by
berkeleybeej
(Live Free or Diebold)
To: shadowman99
It has been a busy stretch for asteroid scientists. Earlier this week, researchers announced that a small space rock had zoomed past Earth closer than the orbits of some satellites.It's shooting gallery out there folks, and Planet Earth is a sitting duck!
To: shadowman99
...categorized as a 4 on the Torino Scale...
I'd say this one is a 10.
14 posted on
12/26/2004 8:52:28 PM PST by
FReepaholic
(Proud FReeper since 1998. Proud monthly donor.)
To: shadowman99
The way the odds are going, I'd lay a bet on that one.
17 posted on
12/26/2004 8:56:26 PM PST by
Duchess47
("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
To: shadowman99
It is now pegged at having a 1-in -45 chance of striking the planet on April 13, 2029. Yep, that's the risk on that one day only. Cumulatively, over the 70 years subsequent to 2029, the risk is about 30% (as of right now). Wish they wouldn't announce these things until they get it nailed down. What's the point?
To: shadowman99
I will be 17 days shy of 62 years old on that day. My son will be 29 years, and my daughter will be 34.
19 posted on
12/26/2004 8:57:42 PM PST by
trussell
(I Never Frown, even when I am sad,because I never know who is falling in love with my Smile!!!)
To: shadowman99
Time to develop the giant space based laser "defensive" weapon.
20 posted on
12/26/2004 8:57:43 PM PST by
bayourod
(Our troops are already securing our borders against terrorists. They're killing them in Iraq.)
To: shadowman99
Nevertheless, the odds against impact are still high, about 60-to-1, meaning that there is a better than 98 percent chance that new data in the coming days, weeks, and months will rule out any possibility of impact in 2029."
Uhh ... these aren't lottery odds, Folks. This is more like the odds against winning a Big Mac at McDonalds when you scratch the silver paint off your french fry box.
21 posted on
12/26/2004 8:57:45 PM PST by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
To: shadowman99; Chieftain
Thanks for the post. Just in time! I was gong to start a diet and working out at the gym this week. Now I can forget that.Whew! What a close call.
To: shadowman99
"...possible impact scenario on April 13, 2029...Look on the bright side - you won't have to do your taxes that year!
26 posted on
12/26/2004 9:03:18 PM PST by
LibFreeOrDie
(A Freep a day keeps the liberals away.)
To: shadowman99
It must be that time of the year where Congress discusses NASA's budget. Seems to be a pattern.
To: shadowman99
xperts have said repeatedly that they are concerned about alarming the public before enough data is gathered to project an asteroid's path accurately. Why do they treat us like babies? We can take 9/11 We can handle Falluja We can deal with this too.
29 posted on
12/26/2004 9:07:56 PM PST by
konaice
To: shadowman99
No problem for those of us who will be raptured.
To: shadowman99
one "wormwood" asteroid....
coming up.
33 posted on
12/26/2004 9:12:57 PM PST by
Robert_Paulson2
("allahu akhbar..." the call to murder?)
To: shadowman99
Dang. I have major plans for 2029. If true, this is very irritating.
35 posted on
12/26/2004 9:22:59 PM PST by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Time to let slip the dogs...)
To: shadowman99
one in forty-five chance of hitting us? That's not fair!
36 posted on
12/26/2004 9:23:27 PM PST by
Baraonda
(Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
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