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Old 09-02-2003, 06:21 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Gaming Zoiks! Asteroid may hit the Earth in 11 years!

Actually, the chances are 1 in 909,000 and the odds are expected to improve as more data becomes available. Whew.

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On impact, it could have the effect of 20 million Hiroshima atomic bombs...
Don't like the sound of that, though.

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Old 09-02-2003, 06:27 AM   #2 (permalink)
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'Its potential strike date is March 21, 2014, but astronomers say that any risk of impact is likely to decrease as further data is gathered'.

How can more data decrease risk of impact?
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Right now there's probably several thousand possible flight paths. That number will narrow as it approaches and as the paths toward the Earth are eliminated, the risk of impact decreases.

Of course there's no guarantee the paths toward the Earth will be eliminated.
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The problem with asteroids is everybody talks about them but nobody does anything!!

With apologies to Charles Dudley Warner.
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Old 09-02-2003, 07:37 AM   #5 (permalink)
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The problem with asteroids is everybody talks about them but nobody does anything!!

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Yeah, but how many asteroid scares have we had in the past 5 years? about 3 haven't we?

But yet, nothing has happened...
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it wont happen, it's just here to make people afraid and buy things before they will all die

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it wont happen, it's just here to make people afraid and buy things before they will all die

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LOL

Sounds like some sick econimic stimulus plan
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This sounds like a good story line for a Hollywood movie!

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Old 09-02-2003, 08:50 AM   #9 (permalink)
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This sounds like a good story line for a Hollywood movie!

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Didnt you see the one with the redneck oil drillers that saved the world?

Go Bruce Willis!
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Sounds like some sick econimic stimulus plan
it is what it is

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