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Stealth Asteroid Misses Earth

Posted by timothy on from the they're-sneaky-like-that dept.

Paradoxish writes: "Gah. According to cnn.com an asteroid hiding in an astronomical blindspot nearly blindsided Earth. The scary part is that scientists didn't notice it until four days AFTER it passed by. Apparently, it would've been similiar to the Tunguska explosion. Scary." As long as they keep missing Earth, we're OK.

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  1. Re:It seems like by DeltaBlaster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yup.. Im sure one of the tech's will just install Window's to save the time of developing their own operation system :-) .. All of a sudden all the monitors in mission control will fill with BSOD's :)

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  2. Re:This is getting scary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, I am not freaked out.

    Don't be a total fucking idiot. We've made it 50,000 years since the last major hit. The next large astroid collision is not likely to happen in your lifetime.

    Even if this one small astroid hit, the chances are 1/9000 that it would have struck a populated area.

    You can come out from under your desk now.

  3. Re:[OT] Weird moderation! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Troll=1 was probably a Christian Republican moderator