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Asteroid Highlighted as Impact Threat
Maggie McKee writes "The asteroid Apophis has been traversing the void of space for untold years; in just a few decades time it will make a very close pass to Earth, and could make an unwelcome stop on our planet's surface. Even still, it's nothing to get too worked up about. The 20-million-tonne object has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting the Pacific Ocean in early April of 2036. If it did hit, it could trigger a tsunami that would do an untold amount of damage to the California coastline and many other places on Earth. Despite the low level of the threat, it's still a real enough danger to prompt the United Nations to develop a protocol about the scenario. We'll get a closeup look at the object in 2029, and at that point we should have a better idea of what 2036 will bring us."
i'll just cruise my hover car over the tsunami. it'll be such awesome fun, i can't wait.
...not this shite again. How did we manage the millions of years prior to politicians protecting us from this? We'll be able to nuke them YEARS out, even with current technology.
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Don't vacation in LA during 2036.
We'll wait until 3 weeks before it hits to do something about it!
this asteroid is all george bush's fault, and i feel that we need to have senate hearings and call in the fema director and ask him what he plans to do to stop that thing. hold on, i have another idea: let's make sure hillary is president when the thing gets closer and she can sell it as real estate to aliens, pocket the money, and lie about all of it...the entire problem will go away.
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