[lightman]

Well, it's not Good Friday in 2029--that comes two weeks earlier on March 30.

[MHGinTN]

Perhaps this phenomenon is part of why we haven't made contact with another planetary race. I don't think it was possible for the Drake equation to take this into consideration, was it?

[SkyDancer]

I plan to be out of town then .....

[CaptRon]

I've heard of this Apophis. Col. Jack O'Neill kicked his butt!

[twhitak]

Could anyone explain to me how the impact of a 25-million-ton, 820-ft.-wide asteroid traveling at 28,000 mph would only generate an 800-ft. tsunami (assuming it hit the ocean)? Those numbers seem a bit off to me.

[airborne]

It would be a good time to land a colony of humans and hitch a ride out of the solar system.

[jdm]

The tiny ones always get me.

[Waco]

Remember, if it's really omly a missile,, ya gotta let it it.

[lowbridge]

Friday the 13th of April 2029 could be a very unlucky day for planet Earth.

Not to worry. We'll all be dead of global warming by then.

And besides, chances are good that it'll hit some insignificant third world countrey.

[Screamname]

Maybe it will land on the New York times.

[castle05]

maybe they could strap on a few of these to give it a nudge out of the way...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765700/posts

[dgallo51]

Well…I guess THAT puts the threat of 'global warming' in it's proper perspective.

[FairOpinion]

I personally think this is a higher probability threat than global warming.

[JSteff]

Impact Calculator

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/

[LibWhacker]

According to NASA, a simple 1-ton "kinetic energy impactor" spacecraft thumping into Apophis at 5000 mph would do the trick.

Sure, and then when we weren't looking the ChiComs or the Russians could subsequently thump it with a 2-ton impactor and steer it into LA or New York maybe.

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[Elsie]

The Asteroid Threat is Out There!!!!!!

 

 

Well; DUH!!!!

 

NIV Revelation 8:8-11
  8.  The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood,
  9.  a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
 10.  The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water--
 11.  the name of the star is Wormwood.  A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.

NIV Revelation 9:1
   The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.

[Quix]

Will this be the great mountain Scripture mentions falling into the sea in these end times?

[ßuddaßudd]

12/23/2012 is the correct date.

[W. W. SMITH]

Install a Bussard fusion power plant, mount ion engines and fly it out of the way. Then bring it back and park it in geosynchronous orbit directly over Chimborazo. By that time carbon nano tubes should be developed enough to put up a space elevator.