[Fineus]

This is a half comedy/half fact (?) post, as taken from the Daily Mail - a UK paper - on Tuesday 30th.

Astronomers have dismissed the posisibility that a 1.4 Mile wide asteroid will crash into Earth in Febuary 2019 - but will not rule out future collisions.

So yay, we're safe once again.
But what's this? Scientists won't garuntee that no other rock will ever hit the Earth? wow, and I thought they knew everything!

Gah... the Mail is so pathetic.

[Kazashi]

You.... *read*... a newspaper.... ????

Continuing the half comedy/half fact theme:

I used to read the Sunday paper, until I grew up. But, after a brief encounter, I still think they don't have anything on the British editions.

Most people will probably add this to the list of overhyped and unnecessary scares, like the astronomers who miscalculated the orbit of that comet (Temple? Tuttle?). But sooner or later, we'll get hit. Then there won't be any newspapers left

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by Thunder
Asteroid to miss Earth...

Dammit! And I was aiming so well too...

[Redfang]

Yeah, I read about that today, too. I hope there will not be other asteroids coming...
 
It's strange how they can count everything so accurately, even if it's 17 years away, and small.

[Styxx]

Erm, actually, I don't think it's all that stupid if they're referring to this:

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/

Scary, ain't it?

[CP5670]

Look at those impact probabilities, though.

[Styxx]

Originally posted by CP5670
Look at those impact probabilities, though.

You realize that they're in a [0,1] scale, right? One percent probability doesn't seem a lot, but if it's the probability of all life being decimated on Earth, I still think it's pretty scary.

[StratComm]

Yeah, but there's also that Torinno (sp?) scale thing.  Only one of the objects on that list even merits further monitoring.  The rest have "no likely consequences" so if something is going to kill us all in the next hundred years, I promise it is not on that list.

[Unknown Target]

Lol!

Impact
Prob.
(cum.)

Srry, sick sex joke right there

Anyways, don't worry, we'll be on Mars by the time something big hits us (not counting Bill Gates)

[Redfang]

Originally posted by Unkown Target
Anyways, don't worry, we'll be on Mars by the time something big hits us (not counting Bill Gates)

 
Yeah, right. I'm quite sure that it isn't possible to transport earth's people to safe place, where you can live, in a long time, as in Mars you can't, much needs to be done to make it possible. And Mars is far away. Moon maybe, but it's pretty small for over 6 billion people.

[Zeronet]

Who said anything about 6 billion people?

[CP5670]

You realize that they're in a [0,1] scale, right? One percent probability doesn't seem a lot, but if it's the probability of all life being decimated on Earth, I still think it's pretty scary.

Even still, a 1/1000000 chance does not account for enough to worry over it.

[Redfang]

Originally posted by Zeronet
Who said anything about 6 billion people?

 
If they want to save all the humans, then that's over 6 billion.

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by Redfang

 
Yeah, right. I'm quite sure that it isn't possible to transport earth's people to safe place, where you can live, in a long time, as in Mars you can't, much needs to be done to make it possible. And Mars is far away. Moon maybe, but it's pretty small for over 6 billion people.

Screw Moon, even Earth is too little for 6 billion

[an0n]

Can't help but think this was just a fund raising exercise.

[Knight Templar]

1994 UG 2025-2102 85 7.3e-06 6.31 21.3  0.187 -3.37 -3.51 0

eeeeeepp!!

[Dark_4ce]

God knows how many have allready flow by us which we don't know about?!

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by an0n
Can't help but think this was just a fund raising exercise.

hey it's summer. The press needs something to write about.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by CP5670


Even still, a 1/1000000 chance does not account for enough to worry over it.

It does if there are over 1000000 things out there to hit us.

[StratComm]

Don't even get me started on probabilities.  Not that it is the exact same thing, but that's like saying that if you flipped a coin twice it would have to land on heads at least once.  Just don't work that way.