Asteroid Passes (Just) 65,000 Miles From Earth

An anonymous reader writes "Discovered a day before its closest approach to Earth, Asteroid 2013 LR6 came within roughly 65,000 miles of the planet as it flew over the Southern Ocean of Tasmania, Australia at 12:42 a.m. EDT on June 8. Despite being more than half the size of the one that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February, the 30-foot-wide asteroid posed no threat, according to NASA."

Finally a use for the ISS

[PsyMan]

Can we not fit a large laser to the ISS and have someone fly it around up there blasting it in to smaller manageable chunks (they would only need 2 rotation buttons, a thruster and a fire button). I am sure Atari patented this technology back in the 70's.

Re:Chicken Little Lives

[You're All Wrong]

I don't remember the dinosaurs claiming that.

Re:Chicken Little Lives

[PsyMan]

I don't remember the dinosaurs claiming that.

Some of the more mature slashdotters do though *cough* COBOL

Lucky!

[AmiMoJo]

Much further and we would have been dealing with an integer overflow.