[freedumb2003]

Man, global warming is more dangerous than we thought! (/libtard “thinking”)

[piroque]

A THREE MILE wide asteroid

First reports I heard it was only 2.7 miles , so it's growing on every new report

[HombreSecreto]

Sure it wasn’t named after Rosie O’Donnell?

[UCANSEE2]

Outer space is an empty vacuum... filled with all the matter in the universe.

[COBOL2Java]

A THREE MILE wide asteroid is set to graze past Earth on Sept. 1

It's going to eat grass?

[ETL]

Graze??

"Dubbed ‘Florence,’ the space rock will pass 4.4 million miles from our planet"

[Celerity]

None of these articles are even slightly accurate.

These are the same people who look at the sun in somekinda angstroms and say “Half the sun is missing!”

spaceweather.com. Done.

[Billthedrill]

The asteroid, named for Florence Nightingale, was first spotted in 1981, and the flyby in September will be the closest it’s come to Earth since 1890.

"Hey Florence, good news! They're naming an asteroid after you!"

"Well, that's nice."

"Bad news - it's three miles wide and when it impacts the Earth it's gonna wipe out every man, woman, child, and animal life down to the cockroaches and the slime mold."

"Well, at least they'll remember me, dear."

[ETL]

Graze

verb (used with object), grazed, grazing.

1.to touch or rub lightly in passing.

2.to scrape the skin from; abrade: The bullet just grazed his shoulder.

verb (used without object), grazed, grazing.

3.to touch or rub something lightly, or so as to produce slight abrasion, in passing: to graze against a rough wall.

noun
4.a touching or rubbing lightly in passing.
5.a slight scratch, scrape, or wound made in passing; abrasion.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/graze

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"Dubbed ‘Florence,’ the space rock will pass 4.4 million miles from our planet"

[bgill]

Graze? More stupid reporter tricks.

[ForYourChildren]

Graze?

Sure it is big.

But the moon is 252,088 miles away.

And this will be 4.4 million miles away.

[ForYourChildren]

I guess this makes them think of graze.

[bigtoona]

We have had a bunch pass between earth and moon, some very big. This article is full crap.

[ForYourChildren]

Here it is relative to the moon.

[Mastador1]

So, once again we are at risk from a Three Mile Island,this time in................ space.

[JudgemAll]

100 times further from the moon... But how far from the actual orbit? That would be more interesting to know. It is the stuff crossing our orbit we need to watch

[IronJack]

'damn close'

Now THERE'S a scientific measurement.

[moovova]

I hope the “No Wake” signs are up.

[BwanaNdege]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

[fruser1]

I’m still trying to decide if something like that hits, should I just run around eating everything in sight or shoot myself?

Probably will eat but the weather will be so damn depressing.