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yuiyoshida

(41,833 posts) Sat Jan 20, 2018, 06:22 PM Jan 2018

A 'potentially hazardous' monster asteroid will fly close to Earth

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A 'potentially hazardous' monster asteroid will fly close to Earth (Original Post) yuiyoshida Jan 2018 OP

Truth is if we are in the crosshairs and impact is imminent, we're beyond doomed. Moostache Jan 2018 #1

Almost certainly? SergeStorms Jan 2018 #2

If it would hit us, then Marie Marie Jan 2018 #3

This is the crappiest video I've seen in some time. Isn't there a better report on the subject Nitram Jan 2018 #4

All the videos I get are from the News section yuiyoshida Jan 2018 #5

Moostache

(9,897 posts)

1. Truth is if we are in the crosshairs and impact is imminent, we're beyond doomed.

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 10:34 PM

Jan 2018

There is nothing in humanity's arsenal that has the potential to divert an object of any significant mass moving at that speed. People would never be told about it because we are a pathetic little species that would only devolve into chaos and anarchy...you know, like the Trump era only condensed and more potent like modern cultured pot versus 60's ditch weed...

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)

2. Almost certainly?

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 11:02 PM

Jan 2018

It "almost certainly" won't collide with the earth? Not that we could do anything about it if it was going to hit the earth, but that sliver of doubt with "almost certainly" is a wee bit unnerving.

Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)

3. If it would hit us, then

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 11:24 PM

Jan 2018

I have to say I would rather be taken out by nature than by a Trump nuclear tantrum. JMHO.

Nitram

(22,845 posts)

4. This is the crappiest video I've seen in some time. Isn't there a better report on the subject

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Sun Jan 21, 2018, 01:27 AM

Jan 2018

you could link to? Like this, from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory:

"We have been tracking this asteroid for over 14 years and know its orbit very accurately," said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "Our calculations indicate that asteroid 2002 AJ129 has no chance - zero - of colliding with Earth on Feb. 4 or any time over the next 100 years."

Asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make a close approach to Earth on Feb. 4, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. PST (4:30 p.m. EST / 21:30 UTC). At the time of closest approach, the asteroid will be no closer than 10 times the distance between Earth and the Moon (about 2.6 million miles, or 4.2 million kilometers).

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7042

yuiyoshida

(41,833 posts)

5. All the videos I get are from the News section

Reply to Nitram (Reply #4)

Sun Jan 21, 2018, 01:31 AM

Jan 2018

on Youtube. Some times there are other videos that are posted. In this particular case, one is from RT (RUSSIA TODAY) or the other from FOX NEWS. having a choice of all three, which one would you pick?

I don't post Fox News Videos or RUSSIA TODAY videos. I happen to think our news can be better than that bullshit, from Bullshit mountain.

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