Originally had a 1-in 40 chance of hitting the Earth. Now has a 1-10,000 chance, but still, that's pretty damn close. If there's actual worry in some ofthe scientists enough to want to plan a mission to do something, that's a pretty scary thought.

One in Tenthousand?

Dude... you have a better chance getting a girl pregneant using a condom and she's on the pill...

Call Bruce Willlis!

Rob..

1 in 10,000 is pretty close astronomically. The Earth's gravity WILL effect it. It's not even the effect that it could have in 2029 on it's first flyby and possible impact, it's the effect on the second flyby it will be making in 2039 that is worrysome. The earth's gravity could pull it closer so it hits on its second flyby.


Basically, this Asteroid gets two chances to hit, both very close calls.

It happens.

But We Defeated Apophis

Good, humans have been sucking at life. Time to wipe us out and try again.

Quit worrying, nothing we can do about it.

What if were all cooked like over easy eggs by then?

hopefully it will change our orbit and stop global warming so those idiots will stop jumping

Its gotta happen in 2029, its Friday 13th.

never tell me the odds

We have to make this look good for public relations, therefore we need a more melodramatic take on it. Send in Robert Duvall!

I will have lived a full life by 2036. So meh.

Good thing Massassi has a stargate. We can go through it and form a new civilization of 300 guys and 4 girls.

Time to re-populate.

How about 4 guys and 300 girls?

DEATH BY SNOO SNOO.

We'll only use the best of the stock.

So you're out.

Most of the best stock of massassi have left...

Hahaha, I actually LOL'ed at that.

Well, I bet the scientists have taken the earths gravity into consideration and used it when calculating the odds. I am not worrying anyway. On the first pass, it will hit asia if it hits at all. I live in america (not saying I don't care about other people). Second pass... that is a long time from now. Besides, in 20 years, we might have built a new space station with a laser defense system to shoot down alien spacecraft attacking earth, and we can use it to destroy the asteroid! or not...

Who cares, honestly? If it hits, we all die. That's it.

It's only 1,000 feet in diameter? Sure it will make one helluva dent and cause us a bit of grief in our lives for 1/2 century or so but it's not doomsday. When asteroids that have miles in diameters, then we worry.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]Who cares, honestly? If it hits, we all die. That's it.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, who cares about dying? Not me! *jumps out the window*

Again?

But what if it hits antartica, causing many many radioactive icebergs to attack the world.

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[QUOTE=Double Helix]in 20 years, we might have built a new space station with a laser defense system to shoot down alien spacecraft attacking earth, and we can use it to destroy the asteroid! or not...[/QUOTE]Yeah, because having a large quantity of debris in Earth orbit wouldn't kill our space program for about 200 years, or until we developed energy shields. Whichever came first.

I like the way you think. *takes notes* orbital... debris...

I think quality should be measured based on high post counts.

That'll make Dj Yoshi in, you know

(and me out )

Ahah! That means I'm number 12! (or 14?)

And yeah.. I laughed at the Apophis thing too...

Yeah, it's such a BBOSTERM

[QUOTE=Double Helix]Well, I bet the scientists have taken the earths gravity into consideration and used it when calculating the odds. I am not worrying anyway. On the first pass, it will hit asia if it hits at all. I live in america (not saying I don't care about other people). Second pass... that is a long time from now. Besides, in 20 years, we might have built a new space station with a laser defense system to shoot down alien spacecraft attacking earth, and we can use it to destroy the asteroid! or not...[/QUOTE]

Yeah, what about that Star Wars laser defense program that the US is working on? They could use that to damage the asteroid.

It's only about 300 meters in diameter, right? I'm sure if it were damaged beforehand, it would significantly burn up in the atmosphere (if not completely) and cause insignificant or no damage. We've nothing to worry about.

With any luck, we can convince the aliens and the space rocks to go to war with eachother, and they'll blow themselves up. Two birds, one stone.

I think it should go 1-9, 11-20.

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Um, Star Wars was barely more than a proposal. They did some little underground test and it never went anywhere.

Second, hitting an asteroid with a laser wouldn't do anything. The amount of energy required to burn up an asteroid with a laser would be unimaginable. It's much easier to launch nuclear warheads driven by rockets at the asteroid to alter it's course. That would actually work.

bah the main guns on just one of the ships in the invasion fleet could destroy that ugly rock you humans call a moon

But that would belittle the name of our moon which is...the moon.