"Expert: Asteroid May Hit Earth but Don't Panic"

Godamn, people need to calm down about this BS. The Media WAAAY over-hypes this ****. It's ridiculous... Even NASA's NEO division was complaining about it...

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news.html

Hmmm, one chance in 250,000. That's worse odds than the Illinois lottery. Just joking. Of course, a whole bunch of those 250,000 chances hit upper atmosphere and burn without being generally detected, which, i suppose, reduces the odds considerably. Besides, it is generally admitted by reputable astronomers that a "big one" could be incoming from dark space unnoticed until about 5 days to impact. Not really enough time for politicians to agree on anything except lunch break. :D

Here's something to think about... How do we know there's no people on this "asteriod" sitting there shitting themselves that planet Earth is going to hit them at 64,000 mph and decimate their planet? ;) I know it's only a relatively small rock but it puts things in a different perspective doesn't it?

Hehe.. yeah, but that's like driving on the wrong side of the highway! And also, I hope these hypothetical people are pretty resiliant to lack of atmosphere, extreem cold/heat, radiation and confined spaces ;)

Ammo

I can here the people on the rock now:

"Don't be ridicules, nothing could live on that planet, its surrounded by a gas with a very high oxygen content, do you realize how caustic that is"

Then joke:

"Yeah! If there were people there they'd probably excrete acid, ROFL"

Well, my thought is, we might as well get a couple of oil drillers up there, and nuke the thing.

One of them would have to stay behind to blow it up of course. (The Armageddon Movie) ;)

I am a little supersticious. I know that the Aztecs predicted the end of the world on Dec. 23 2012, so I wouldn't forget about that. The world might not even be there to get hit if that happens. But I do agree with cwk9, live it up.

P.S. I don't think America ever got to the moon. It was a hoax. And JFK was staged too. (Elvis is still alive!) :P

HAHA, i read every single post and i must admit that you guys have me laughing.

If the world was to end id probable come on this forum and read the jokes about it :)

back to the task at hand..... i see it like this, we got 17 years right??? well damnit think back 17 years ago and look at that technology, and look how much it changed to todays technology, and the cool thing about it is we are moving FASTER AND FASTER, so lets double that 17, what do ya get?? 34, then lets look back 34 years ago at technology, hah, there was ****, we have 7 years to jsut think **** up and 10 years to exicute it....

lets get this mofo :).... oooooo and if someone has to stay on the rock IT BETTER BE ME DAMNIT!!!!!

I would have expected the media to make this the biggest news story out there. But they're still stuck on political ussues as well. However, I think as the time comes closer to the expected date of impact (2019; considering it's all true), we'll hear much more about it on the news. CNN and DateLine... all the popular news telecasts will be raving about it.

Don't forget the nuclear arsenal Russia, China, and the US Pack. We could destroy the world 20 times with them. That asteroid would be sent to hell if we nuked it.

Talking about the Nukes that Russia, etc..... have, one might say "you know what, the hell with it, why let an asteroid hit us, why not nuke ourselves to hell?". All it takes is a little whisky and the push of a red button! :D

I'm not worried about it (much) because like many said, technology grows faster each day. Hell here's a thought. Nanotech is in production, why not send a shitload of these little robot guys and disassemble the asteroid, atom by atom...?

The possibilities are endless, and the solutions will come...