Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098 295
eldavojohn writes "The Bad Astronomer brings word of an asteroid discovered with a tiny chance of hitting Earth. While it's only 50 meters wide, it could have the impact of a 20 megaton bomb. It's still twenty million miles away so if it hits us, it won't happen until 2098. The real story here is how a remarkable telescope, dubbed Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System, that went operational in May found its first potential target in our growing impact alert system for Earth."
i'll be dead (Score:2, Funny)
don't care.. sorry..
Take action Now! (Score:3, Funny)
First, let's figure out what this "Nature" is and what it wants. Then, let's stop it in its tracks!
Re:i'll be dead (Score:5, Funny)
Fuck you. I'll be 133 years old hooked up to machines and tubes.
I CARE
Who will save us? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No problem, send in a driller (Score:4, Funny)
Well, Bruce Willis' head in a jar at least.
Good news!!!!!!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Who will save us? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How can it destroy the Earth? (Score:2, Funny)
Take the year 2098... subtract the left wing anti-Christ(43)... subtract the right wing anti-Christ(44)... carry the asteroid(1)...
2012!!! THE MAYANS WERE RIGHT!!!!
Re:How can it destroy the Earth? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm eligible for retirement in 2012, so the world as I know it will surely end. Don't know about the rest of you guys, though. More importantley...
Our calendar ends on Dec 31st of THIS YEAR! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!
Re:Key Words: (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Kinda slow (Score:3, Funny)
Well, I'm guessing it isn't on a direct course for Earth, and is traveling through the solar system on some eccentric orbit around the Sun. Also, once it gets here (if it gets here), it will accelerate both as it gets closer to the Sun's gravity well and as it gets closer to Earth's gravity well (the latter especially as it enters the atmosphere).
If it is headed directly for Earth, though, like "They're on a direct course for Sector 001," we're in trouble.
Re:Good news!!!!!!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is it REALLY that bad? (Score:4, Funny)
telescoped? (Score:2, Funny)
Usage: "here is how a remarkable telescoped
Re:i'll be dead (Score:5, Funny)
Re:WOLF WOLF WOLF (Score:3, Funny)
Well, if it's a comet, it might be called Wolf-Biederman ...
Re:Who will save us? (Score:3, Funny)
shouldn't we just freeze them on general principle? Just to get them out of the music scene once and for all?
Re:Who will save us? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:i'll be dead (Score:4, Funny)
Get off my synthilawn you Dawkindarned thirtynagers!
Re:Who will save us? (Score:3, Funny)
I don't know about that, Aerosmith seems pretty against cryogenics.
I don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
Re:And... (Score:5, Funny)
All you need is brainz! All you need is brainz! All you need is brainz brainz... brainz is all you need.
when I find myself in times of trouble, mother mary comes to me... and I eat her brainz, its yummy, its yummy.
yesterday, my mortality was so far away, but i find that I am rotting today. oh i believe in yesterday
Re:i'll be dead (Score:2, Funny)
And now you'll be forced in front of death panels, which decide when and how you will die, in the name of universal health care coverage.
Oh wait, I'm channeling the Republican party again.