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2004 MN4, Even Higher Probability
phreakuencies writes "Worried since the recent post about the MN4 2004 asteroid, I added a bookmark to its 'impact risk' section at NASA. The asteroid started as having a 1/233 probability of hitting earth. Later it raised to 1/63. Daily computations made on 25 Dec raised its chances up to 1/45. Optimists can now say it has a 97.8% probability of missing earth." And Veteran writes " NeoDys offers the 'Orbfit' software package (source code released under the GPL) which can be used to get a pre-release view of the situation with Asteroid 2004MN4."
If you're not a breeder, you're going extinct whether or not this hits.
Uhm, people who breed die too. Your offspring != you.
Although the prospect of lowering the percentage of Bush voters is appealing, I'd have to raise at least a dozen children to make up for the fact that people with better educations have fewer offspring than the NASCAR-watching, mouth-breathing heartland-dwellers do.
It's a hopeless situation - unless a mass-sterilization agent is deployed, we are all going to drown in a sea of idiots in the next 30 years.
If an asteroid hits the Earth, the red states will be completely paralyzed by the pre-apocalyptic hysteria.
Ballicker.
Given a choice between free speech and free beer, most people will take the beer.
I suggest you save your vitriol for this humorless shitbag.
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