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Mars Asteroid Impact Effectively Ruled Out

Posted by timothy on from the now-we-can-go-back-to-fretting-about-earth dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a followup to previous news noting the possibility that an asteroid would collide with Mars: "Further observations have reduced the odds of asteroid 2007 WD5 impacting Mars to approximately 1 in 10,000. According to NASA this asteroid followed the same pattern of increasing in probability, then finally being ruled out as a threat."

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  1. Re:This sucks. by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's the most retarded argument I've ever heard.

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  2. Re:This sucks. by peektwice · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The point was, you_can't_stop_it. So why is it a wake-up call? I was hoping to bring out some cognitive thought, but apparently all I'm going to get is "that was retarded". A wake-up call usually serves to bring people to the realization that something needs corrected. Do you mean to suggest that we need to correct the orbital patterns of an asteroid? Are you suggesting that there is some way to correct the fact that we are infinitesimal in the grand scheme of the universe?.
    Let me put it in terms you can understand...
    You're a dumb ass

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