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It's called Apophis. It's 390m wide. And it could hit Earth in 31 years time [Asteroid]
The Guardian (UK) ^
| December 7, 2005
| by Alok Jha
Posted on 12/06/2005 6:59:40 PM PST by aculeus
In Egyptian myth, Apophis was the ancient spirit of evil and destruction, a demon that was determined to plunge the world into eternal darkness.
A fitting name, astronomers reasoned, for a menace now hurtling towards Earth from outerspace. Scientists are monitoring the progress of a 390-metre wide asteroid discovered last year that is potentially on a collision course with the planet, and are imploring governments to decide on a strategy for dealing with it.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: artbell; asteroid; catastrophism; comet; doomsday; faroutman; imgettingintheshower; outerspace; spaceballs; whosgotthepopcorn
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To: hattend
I'll be 86. I think I'll sit on the front stoop and watch it come in. I'll be around 80 and from the way things are looking, still having to work. Take some pictures, ok?
To: hattend
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:19:58 PM PST
by
KC Burke
(Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
To: aculeus
Nobody has a pool up and running yet on latitude and longitude?
I'll take: 48° 49' N 2° 29' E
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:20:12 PM PST
by
birbear
(Admit it. you clicked on the "I have already previewed" button without actually previewing the post.)
To: aculeus
Get out the tinfoil hats....
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:20:31 PM PST
by
Dr. Luv
(QQ)
To: aculeus
31 years, eh? According to my doctors I don't have 31 months. It figures I would miss the astronomical event of the century. Got to be a way around this...
To: aculeus
So why rebuild New Orleans? Maybe Dr. Strangelove has a better idea.
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:21:16 PM PST
by
kcar
(theUNsucks.com)
To: aculeus
I just happen to be reading....
To: aculeus
By then I'll be 69. Hmmm.
OTOH, my boys will be in their late 20s.
Yeah, I guess I'll panic if it hasn't been resolved or clarified by 2025.
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:22:55 PM PST
by
Petronski
(I love Cyborg!)
To: aculeus
Let's see, it's roughly the size of the Superdome. Maybe we could fill it with New Orleans welfare junkies and they could wreck it in a weekend.
To: CindyDawg
Headlines...2036
"United Nations Security Council passes resolution number 1,970 condemning Pophis for impending genocide."
"Greenpeace goes into World Court seeking injunction against use of force against pristine asteroid."
"Robert Kennedy Jr. assails NASA for planning asteroid mission without having done an environmental impact study."
To: Junior
"I'll be 71. Like I'll give a flying fig leaf."
Go on a fitness program.
While the young guys are running around saying, "I don't want to die!!!!", you can say, "My last day and I get all the chicks!!!!"
Woo Hoo!!!!!!!!
To: aculeus
In that case, don't worry too much about social security.
To: CindyDawg
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:25:08 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: aculeus
Get the 911 Commission on it. Gore-licker, Ben-Vensite and Co. They seem to have all the right answers. Yea man, do that.
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:25:12 PM PST
by
Dont_Tread_On_Me_888
(Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)
To: gas0linealley
And Japanese cowboys land on the darn thing and steer it away.
To: aculeus
We have thirty-one years before impact. That's way more than enough time to drop a lander with an ion rocket on it, land it on the asteroid, and fire the ion rocket for about a month to "nudge" the asteroid into a safe orbit. Or if technology is advanced enough by then, use a powerful enough rocket to slow down the asteroid to park it in the L1 gravitational zone between the Earth and Moon and start mining it out afterwards.
To: aculeus
I have to change my Depends. Thanks.
To: Revolting cat!
Who was it that sang an opposite song to EVE OF DESTRUCTION called Eve Of Correction?
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:27:09 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
To: aculeus
Let's get serious, down on our knees and pray for women and minories who'll be hardest hit (it goes without saying.)
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:27:19 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: cripplecreek
Hmm. Yeah, that's a nice get away car but the basket ... is not going to hold a lot of loot. That hook on the back might hold the plasma screen though.
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