Doomsday Determined? Asteroid Apophis Could Strike Earth in 2036

foxnews.com ^ | Feb. 10, 2011 | Michelle Bryner

[windsorknot]

The Obamaroid will kill us long before Apophis gets here.

[Yet_Again]

Rev 8:8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

[cripplecreek]

Well I’ll be in my 70s and will have had a pretty decent run by then.

[riverrunner]

Remind me to start thinking about in in 3034.5.

[Lazlo in PA]

Wow. 2036. That is a pretty optimistic view of how long the country will last. When Obummer is done with us we will be praying for this rock to hit us from out grass huts.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Darn, just before my 75th birthday.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Would this still be Bush’s fault?

[beezdotcom]

"No one should worry. Between Mars and Jupiter, we have an asteroid belt. There's all the asteroids going near the sun, and these objects are coming near the earth all the time," Tim Hill, space manager at the Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, told MyFoxTampaBay.

Mr. Hill seems to be a little unclear on the concept of "words of reassurance". First he tells us not to worry - then he tells us why we should?

[The Antiyuppie]

The way things are going, by then it will just be a matter of a little rock hitting a big rock, no big deal.

[Sequoyah101]

I’ll probably be out of the ability to work by then and goodness knows I won’t have enough money to survive after obastard gets through with us.

Any chance we can move the date up?

[WellyP]

When does Sociality Security run out?

[WellyP]

I hit the wrong button! Social Security!

[Ted Grant]

I thought that the consensus was that they have to see what Apophis does in an upcoming close call (2013, I think). If it threads a needle in the distance between the Earth and the Moon at the time (a 600 mile ‘eye’), then it will certainly strike the Earth and hit in the Pacific in the 2030s.

If it doesn’t, then there is no danger.

And by any standard, as I understand it, there is no danger of Apophis being a planet killer or anything like that. But it would probably be unwise to be vacationing on the West Coast that week.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

The price of green bananas should start falling a day or two before this thing hits.

[Rembrandt]

Algore has already promised us that 2016 is the end since humankind failed to follow up on his global warming advice. Who cares about 2036, right Alg?

[DuncanWaring]

April 13, 2036.

Cool!

Won't have to file an income tax return that year!

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[Nowhere Man]

It will just be before I turn 70.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

I wonder if I should worry about it? I’ll be 100 years old then!