1-in-1,000 Chance of Asteroid Impact In ... 2182?

astroengine writes "Sure, we're looking 172 years into the future, but an international collaboration of scientists have developed two mathematical models to help predict when a potentially hazardous asteroid (or PHA) may hit us, not in this century, but the next. The rationale is that to stand any hope in deflecting a civilization-ending or extinction-level impact, we need as much time as possible to deal with the threatening space rock. (Asteroid deflection can be a time-consuming venture, after all.) Enter '(101955) 1999 RQ36' — an Apollo class, Earth-crossing, 500 meter-wide space rock. The prediction is that 1999 RQ36 has a 1-in-1,000 chance of hitting us in the future, and according to one of the study's scientists, María Eugenia Sansaturio, half of those odds fall squarely on the year 2182."

Comments

Re:I'll probably be dead by then, right?

[BhaKi]

Not only you. The whole human species would be extinct by then. We have global warming, pollution, fuel shortage, wars, corruption. These are enough to finish us by 2100. What happens in 2182 is irrelevant.

Fuck it

[justinlee37]

I'll be dead by 2182 unless we reach singularity and achieve immortality through medicine, computing and science by then! So party it the fuck up! Smoke some weed, snort some cocaine, fuck a stripper! Life's a short joke and you're it so enjoy it while you can fuckers! Fuck the asteroids!

Re:I'll probably be dead by then, right?

[angel'o'sphere]

Since when is the destruction of France a bad thing?

I assume you have never been in France then?

angel'o'sphere

Re:I'll probably be dead by then, right?

[PopeRatzo]

Apparently you're unaware that life existed on Earth in radically different atmospheric conditions

Apparently you're unaware that this entire thread has been about human life, not prokaryotics or even blattaria, but human beings.

It makes your reply something of a non-sequitur, which is certainly not the first time.