A Rock Moves In Space

theBrownfury writes: "The BBC is reporting here that a very large Earth collision course asteroid has been discovered. This asteroid, NT7, was first observed on July 5th and current data suggests an impact date of February 1st, 2019. NT7 is 2kms wide and on date of impact will be approaching Earth at 28km/s. An asteroid of this size is large enough to cause continent wide destruction. However astronomers are still cautious in reporting this asteroid as the orbit of NT7 has not been fully verified. Current data on NT7's orbit suggests it orbits the Sun every 837 days and travels in a tilted orbit from about the distance of Mars to just within the Earth's orbit." The BBC article's headline (and accompanying illustration) are more alarming than the story itself seems to warrant: this asteroid has been given a 0.06 on the Palermo technical scale, which means it shouldn't bump getting run over by a llama off your list of worries.

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Lemme guess...

[Pig Hogger]

... the asteroid is full of guys with sneaked box cutters...

Bruce Willis, dead at 47

[wrinkledshirt]

Just heard this on NPR this morning. Bruce Willis, the famous American thespian, was found dead in his home this morning. Even if you never met him in person you've probably enjoyed one of his movies. What a loss. Truly an American icon. And, of course, now we're all fucked because we don't have anybody to send up there to deal with this Asteroid.

(C'mon, at least give me a +1 funny for calling Bruce Willis a "thespian"... :D)

Okayyy...

[Pig Hogger]

Suppose it really ends up on a collision course. Now, we can do our best to nuke it off-course at least until passes through the Roche limit.

Now, who foots the bill? Definitely, the US is going to insist that they only pay 5% of it, as this is their percentage of the world's population.

But the rest of the world is gonna insist that they pay relative of the percentage of their wealth (wealth that, for the most part, has been sucked from the rest of the world anyways).

Since it's gonna take a long time to resolve this, better start ASAP bickering that...

STOP NT FROM SUCKING THEN!!!!!!

[jackal's claw]

I will use my right to say truefull things when ever I want to. And right now i'm saying that windows, NT5 and probley NT6 will suck. you hear me SUCK, as in get down on their knees and make like a vacuum. And when M$ admits that they are the sucking whores, that everyone know that they are, I will stop saying it so loud.

Re:Quick, before it's too late

[Trinn]

somebody start having sex with Liv Tyler!

Only if she eats something first and gains a real womanly figure. Bean-poles are just not sexy.