To: .cnI redruM
But they say the probability of the asteroid hitting Earth is just one in 909,000 and the risk of impact is likely to decrease as they collect more information. Well by all means, collect more information so we can reduce the risk of impact.
To: Some hope remaining.
50% of the science I used to see published by people at UCLA proved that we needed to spend $$$$ doing more science.
91 posted on
09/02/2003 9:03:25 AM PDT by
.cnI redruM
(More Americans 18-49 Watch The Cartoon Network than CNN!!!)
To: Some hope remaining.
the risk of impact is likely to decrease as they collect more information. These are weekend sailors at Cape Cod thinking that a space rock is like a submerged rock. Chart it and the danger is minimized.
98 posted on
09/02/2003 9:16:08 AM PDT by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: Some hope remaining.
Well by all means, collect more information so we can reduce the risk of impact. Maybe if they do enough research they can make it disappear altogether? LOL!
103 posted on
09/02/2003 9:28:46 AM PDT by
Dianna
To: Some hope remaining.
"Well by all means, collect more information so we can reduce the risk of impact."
Yep, to be exact, the chance of the asteroid hitting the earth in 2014 is either 0 or 1, and it is most likely inexorably on a course that will either hit us or not. (about the only randomly variable factor I can think of that could shift its course in an unpredictable manner would be the solar wind, and I doubt that could alter its course very much at all.
106 posted on
09/02/2003 9:49:38 AM PDT by
-YYZ-
(This message has been brought to you by the voice of reason, which nobody wants to hear)
To: Some hope remaining.
Well by all means, collect more information so we can reduce the risk of impact. Very good.
Presumably if they misplace their tracking data, the risk will go waaaay up.
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