Introducing Asteroid 2004 MN4 633
Numerous readers wrote in with bits about a potential asteroid collision: "The recently discovered asteroid 2004 MN4 is currently listed as having a 1/233 chance of hitting the Earth. It is 420 m across and if it strikes the Earth it will release an energy of 1,900 Megatons of TNT (the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, Tsar Bomba had a yield of only 50 Megatons). It is also the only asteroid that currently has a Torino scale value of 2." So, in summary, there's a 1-in-233 chance of the worst disaster in recorded history happening on April 13, 2029, and a 232-in-233 chance of nothing happening. Have a nice day! Update: 12/24 22:14 GMT by M : The rock is now rated a 4 on the Torino scale, or a 1-in-62 chance of impact.
Friday the 13th (Score:5, Funny)
In 2029, it won't be our problem. (Score:5, Funny)
Lets start (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe (Score:2, Funny)
Not an Asteroid (Score:0, Funny)
Like a car on a turn... (Score:5, Funny)
D&D odds perspective (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Maybe (Score:2, Funny)
And the worst part? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Friday the 13th (Score:5, Funny)
Any moment now. . . (Score:3, Funny)
Select surivivors NOW (Score:5, Funny)
A special committee would have to be appointed to study and recommend the criteria to be employed, but off-hand, I should say that in addition to the factors of youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross-section of necessary skills, it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included, to impart the required principles of leadership and tradition.
Naturally, they would breed prodigiously. There would be much time and little to do. With the proper breeding techniques, and starting with a ratio of, say, ten women to each man, I should estimate the progeny of the original group of 200,000 would emerge a hundred years later as well over a hundred million. Naturally the group would have to continually engage in enlarging the original living space.
saved in the nick of time (Score:5, Funny)
Re:D&D odds perspective (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Maybe (Score:5, Funny)
If we route emergency power through the deflector dish, we should be able to create a warp bubble that would temporaril lower the gravitaional constant around the asteroid. That way we could use the ships tractor beam to slightly alter the asteroids trajectory. It won't be much, but I think it will be enough.
Re:Friday the 13th (Score:5, Funny)
Somewhere, on the surface of Mars
Where's the "Kaboom"? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering "Kaboom"!
Re:Like a car on a turn... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Like a car on a turn... (Score:5, Funny)
More than 1 disaster position? (Score:2, Funny)
If you look at the animation, it shows the one possible earth hit position, but to me, it looks like 2 or 3 of those very near earth positions have the potential to hit the moon (then factor a gravitational swing around the earth...)
Pool anybody? Off the moon, bank off North America, left ocean!
Best quote from the article (Score:5, Funny)
Along with the obligatory Simpsons quote..
Kent Brockman: Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?
Professor: Yes I would, Kent.
23 years till it's actually a story (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Select surivivors NOW (Score:5, Funny)
Ben Affleck is our solution (Score:5, Funny)
Gigli was almost enough to destroy the U.S. by itself. An asteroid should be no problem.
Try not to still be a virgin. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nothing to worry about? (Score:3, Funny)
I don't really think there's too much point in getting concerned just yet.
In other words, you can expect the UN to start work on a treaty and the United States to refuse to sign it.
Re:Select surivivors NOW (Score:5, Funny)
1) Tell the White House that an asteroid may hit the earth imminently. Ask them to produce a list of everyone who's survival is essential to the future of mankind.
2) Build a giant cave/fallout shelter for them.
3) Announce that the asteroid is about to hit.
4) When everyone on the list is in...seal the door.
Thank Goodness- A New Date for the Apocalypse (Score:3, Funny)
I *like* those odds! (Score:3, Funny)
I'll be on the moon, gesturing, "Missed it by *that* much...."
Not to worry guys! (Score:1, Funny)
In numerology... (Score:5, Funny)
2 + 0 + 2 + 9 = 13
1 + 3 = 4
See? No big deal.:)
Re:Select surivivors NOW (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Lets start (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Friday the 13th (Score:2, Funny)
Re:In numerology... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Maybe (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What is the Point? (Score:1, Funny)
Some of my best friends are zombies, you insensitive clod!
Re:In numerology... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I hope the US will "go it alone"on this one... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Maybe (Score:2, Funny)
Re:In numerology... (Score:2, Funny)
So there!
Re:Maybe (Score:2, Funny)
Attention Terrans! (Score:3, Funny)
If such plan is continued with, you will be destroyed as an example to other civilizations.
That is all.
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