Asteroid Headed for Earth

[Ranger68]

Doesn't mean anyone should lose any sleep over it.
5,560 to one. It might just as well be deflected far away from our orbit as into it.

Is our number going to come up sometime? Almost certainly. Is there much we can do about it? Not really.

The only solution is to find things when they're very far away. This would require a lot of money. Nobody's stepping forward to fund these kinds of searches. Until they do, we're screwed. Even if they do, we may be screwed. Get used to it. We're an insignificant speck on a mote of dust.

 

[ducttape]

Each person has a 1 in 1 chance of dying someday, by something.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease with 100% fatality...

 

[wrong hole]

I'll be like 45 yrs old when the asteroid hits...it's been a good life

 

[strange1]

I'll hopefully be saying I'm still 45 at that point. Grecian Formula baby!

 

[Esco!]

I'll be like 45 yrs old when the asteroid hits...it's been a good life

HHmmm.......its now almost 2006, the asteroid may hit us in 2036, or 30 years from now.
If you will 45 in 30 years that means you are 15 years old

 

[wrong hole]

HHmmm.......its now almost 2006, the asteroid may hit us in 2036, or 30 years from now.
If you will 45 in 30 years that means you are 15 years old

Yay!! this man gets a star in the application of grade 4 math

 

[Berlin]

Lmao !

 

[Esco!]

I'm a bit shocked, thats all

 

[booboobear]

Doesn't mean anyone should lose any sleep over it.
5,560 to one. It might just as well be deflected far away from our orbit as into it.

Is our number going to come up sometime? Almost certainly. Is there much we can do about it? Not really.

The only solution is to find things when they're very far away. This would require a lot of money. Nobody's stepping forward to fund these kinds of searches. Until they do, we're screwed. Even if they do, we may be screwed. Get used to it. We're an insignificant speck on a mote of dust.

I know we are not very important in the cosmic scheme of things .
I don't think we should just give up , whats the point of developing civilization if you don't at least try and preserve it.

 

[wrong hole]

I'm a bit shocked, thats all

you just have to be 14 to join terb

 

[Ranger68]

I know we are not very important in the cosmic scheme of things .
I don't think we should just give up , whats the point of developing civilization if you don't at least try and preserve it.

So, you need to argue with your government representatives that money should be spent on the long-range detection and catalogue of near-earth orbit asteroids.

Good luck with that.

 

[Esco!]

you just have to be 14 to join terb

If you really are 15 then you are quite the trooper for starting so early.
More power to you, little guy

 

[red]

If you really are 15 then you are quite the trooper for starting so early.
More power to you, little guy

he can only post during study period

 

[bobistheowl]

Each person has:
1 in 20,000 odds for death in an airplane crash.
1 in 50,000 for death in a tornado
1 in 5,000 for death by electrocution
1 in 2,000 for death in a firearms accident.

You still like those 1 in 5,560 odds???

Sorry, I have to dispute your statistics. I can't believe that, of all the people living today, 300,000 of them will die in airplane crashes. From car bombs, maybe, but not that many for airplane crashes.

 

[Alucard]

I don't even see why things like this are published. Keep it away from the general public. There isn't anything they could do but panic.

 

[Esco!]

Sorry, I have to dispute your statistics. I can't believe that, of all the people living today, 300,000 of them will die in airplane crashes. From car bombs, maybe, but not that many for airplane crashes.

They are taken over a 50 year life span
I got those stats from:
Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics (CENPA)
University of Washington in Seattle

http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw50.html

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[red]

Another Asteroid is headed for earth.
This one is likely to hit earth in 2036

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9871982/

Nasa's "wonderful" plan is to deflect it somehow, just like in the movies

only 31 years left

 

[booboobear]

only 31 years left

People should be aware that there could possibly be asteroids out there we haven't seen that could hit us next year.

 

[Esco!]

We may get hit May 25, 2006 by fragments of this asteroid:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/200604...met_collision_with_earth_on_may25_2006104_xml

 

[Svend]

It's God's will, perhaps He'll tell a modern day Noah to start building a space ark.

Or perhaps not.