Posted on 12/17/2016 9:27:24 AM PST by BenLurkin
Earth is due for an “extinction-level” event from the sky, and even if we see it coming, we won’t be able to do anything about it, a NASA scientist said Monday.
Speaking at a meeting in San Francisco, Dr. Joseph Nuth of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center said large asteroids and comets, the type that could wipe out civilization, are extremely rare, but tend to hit “50 to 60 million years apart.” Given that a comet wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, one could argue that we’re slightly past “due.”
“The biggest problem, basically, is there’s not a hell of a lot we can do about it at the moment,” he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Give or take a few million years.
Well if we’re due for an extinction level event anyway, then does that mean we don’t have to worry about global warming anymore???
Let me translate -
We are going to have to throw a couple tens of billions of dollars at this problem to “understand” it better.
Women and children suffer most, oh, and minorities...
And it’s all our fault. It’s the carbon dioxide that’s gonna attract that comet! Now, pay me the money!
Transgendered Mongolians hardest hit.
I hope it hits my neighbor's house. He always plays his stereo too loud.
-PJ
I think it is called “PHD Welfare”.
thanks for the laugh
“Due”
Sorry, my library books are due. The Earth is not “due” for a catastrophe. This is like saying “I’m due to win the lottery “.
Your predictions do not make it true.
Well, there are some people I know that are talking about “Planet X” which is apparently approaching us. You can only see it if you look directly into the sun. Or something.
We have the domestic enemy working itself up to committing an “extinction level event” right here, right now.
Bush’s fault.
In a little more than a month, everything will be Trump’s fault.
Christian computer scientist: World will end this month when Jesus returns to destroy planet
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3505087/posts
That's OK - it lines up with what the Bible says.
We all have to leave here sometime - it's up to us where we go when we do.
Trumpageddon!
We’re all going to die!
It’s either AGW or an asteroid.
Methinks you have more of a chance being killed by a jihadi than AGW and asteroid combined.
Since this article is conjecture, it can’t be fake news, right?
5.56mm
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