Posted on 05/17/2013 4:44:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Edited on 05/17/2013 5:05:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sticky ooze?
Are we sure it wasn’t once a guest at the Obamadork White House?
Not to be confused with the dark, massive ass that hit Earth on January 20, 2009.
isn’t that like cutting off your nose to spite your face?
i seriously doubt one of these will extinct everything on the planet.
Inb4 Nibiru Elenin Reptiliods comin’
How about we dock a nuke against it, and blow it up on a time fuse?
On the 4th of July!
More breathless hyperbole from a clueless media.
IMHO only, that would have been post of the year if you had changed asteroid to hemorrhoid...
Not to be confused with the dark, massive HEMORRIOD that hit Earth on January 20, 2009.
“If it impacted Earth it would probably result in global extinction.”
Damn, there goes all my prep supplies, firearms and ammo. Crap.
How about just something 100-150ft doing a direct hit on DC when SOTU is going on?
Yeah, I hope DC is Ground Zero.
Wait, no, MECCA!
I shouldda been more careful in what I said as a teenager.
You can see an orbit diagram at this link
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/
by typing in 1998QE2 in the search box and you’ll see that this is actually the closest approach we will ever have to this sucker, but it never comes inside the earth’s orbit so it’s not that dangerous if they have the orbit calculated properly and it doesn’t get jolted out of that orbit some time in the future. Seems like it travels out as far as the outer portions of the asteroid belt every 3.8 years and we only get really close to it every 49 years (run the animation). At 1.7 miles, it is big enough to make a pretty large crater, the Arizona meteor crater is from a 100-metre sort of asteroid, so you do the math.
“It’s 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sticky black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth it would probably result in global extinction. “
They’re confusing this with Michelle.
No worries... The IRS has determined that NASA’s observations are conservative. Therefore, the IRS has banned this asteroid and will not allow its presence in the US. The uninformed POTUS has no comment. The Administration categorically denies the presence or knowledge thereof any asteroids. /s
It has a really big carbon footprint.
FINALLY we get someone else to blame. Congratulations. It’s your fault.
I guess we all have to go someday and there are many worse ways to go...bone cancer; drowning; suffocation; hanging; gunshot; car accident; heart attack; lung cancer; liver failure, etc.
Getting smacked by a giant asteroid is definitely a painless and exciting way to go out. As soon as it hits, we will be rendered unconscious in the blink of an eye. But as it hurtles towards us, it will be quite a sight to see. Speaking for myself, I will get extremely drunk as the night sky gets brighter and brighter.
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