Latest Earth-Crossing Asteroid Passes by Tonight

jc42 writes "Astronomers have been looking at the first images of asteroid 2007 TU24, the 250-meter asteroid that will pass 540,000 km from the Earth at 8:33 UTC (3:30 EST) Tuesday morning. So get your telescopes out; it's a 10th-magnitude object. Or just hold your breath as the time approaches. It might be sobering to consider that it was just discovered last October, and we know about maybe half of the objects like this in Earth-crossing orbits."

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Re:One MILLION Dollars!

[urcreepyneighbor]

Hillary voted for $1 Million for a Woodstock museum - doesn't it make more sense to fund a huge, cheap project that could potentially help save the entire Earth from annihilation than a museum about a rockin' sex-fest? Not if you're a nihilistic hippie that hopes the world will come to a horrible end. :)

Seriously, do you think the people that were fuckin' and druggin' their brains out at Woodstock give a shit about the future? I'm talking about the majority of people there, since - I'm sure - there are a couple that actually got their lives together and made something out of themselves. No, I'm talking about the majority of people that went to Woodstock and did the entire "hippie thing".

Druggies and the rest are too focused on the short-term (eg: let's get high and fuck - let's not even think about the possibility that someone in the orgy has an STD or that someone may get pregnant or that they drugs we're doing probably came from some not-too-nice person or that we're supporting the exploitation of third word farmers that are practically slaves to the drug barons) to think about a big ass rock hitting the Earth within the next couple thousand years. Building a Spaceguard-style system will take long-term thinking.

And before someone accuses me of just attacking the Left (since, really, how many Repubs actually went to Woodstock?), remember that President Bush has been in office for apx seven years. And he hasn't done shit about this potential threat. His bitches seem too focused on duct tape and stem cells to worry about something as trivial as an extinction-level event.

So, yeah, I'm voting for Gumby & Pokey next time around.