Good News! Asteroid Armageddon Unlikely!

[3113]

Hoo-ray! From here. I'm so relieved!

If you're worried about a killer asteroid wiping out Earth, NASA has some good news.

The space agency said Thursday it has identified more than 90 percent of giant near-Earth asteroids, including ones as big as the one thought to have killed the dinosaurs eons ago. None poses a danger to the planet in the next several centuries.

"We know now where most of them are and where most of them are going. That really has reduced our risk" of an impact, said Amy Mainzer of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Now all I have to worry about are massive earthquakes, nuclear meltdowns, tidal waves, oceans rising, the gulf-stream shutting down, major oil spills, food shortages and a few other things. It's still nice to have at least one such end-of-the-world scenario crossed off my list. Then again...there is still that missing ten-percent....

 

[JackLuis]

Hoo-ray! From here. I'm so relieved!

Now all I have to worry about are massive earthquakes, nuclear meltdowns, tidal waves, oceans rising, the gulf-stream shutting down, major oil spills, food shortages and a few other things. It's still nice to have at least one such end-of-the-world scenario crossed off my list. Then again...there is still that missing ten-percent....

Remember this is a Government Agency. Just say'n.

 

[mynameisben]

Hoo-ray! From here. I'm so relieved!

Now all I have to worry about are massive earthquakes, nuclear meltdowns, tidal waves, oceans rising, the gulf-stream shutting down, major oil spills, food shortages and a few other things. It's still nice to have at least one such end-of-the-world scenario crossed off my list. Then again...there is still that missing ten-percent....

Oh, piffle! You don't have to worry about any of those catastrophes. They will either happen or they won't. Whether you worry about them or not is entirely irrelevant to their causality.

 

[TxRad]

Hoo-ray! From here. I'm so relieved!

Now all I have to worry about are massive earthquakes, nuclear meltdowns, tidal waves, oceans rising, the gulf-stream shutting down, major oil spills, food shortages and a few other things. It's still nice to have at least one such end-of-the-world scenario crossed off my list. Then again...there is still that missing ten-percent....

Like buses, it's always the one you don't see that gets ya.

 

[R. Richard]

Quote:
If you're worried about a killer asteroid wiping out Earth, NASA has some good news.

The space agency said Thursday it has identified more than 90 percent of giant near-Earth asteroids, including ones as big as the one thought to have killed the dinosaurs eons ago. None poses a danger to the planet in the next several centuries.

"We know now where most of them are and where most of them are going. That really has reduced our risk" of an impact, said Amy Mainzer of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

It's a bit of a relief, but I expect that it's gonna kill ticket sales.

 

[oggbashan]

It hasn't reduced the risk.

The risk is exactly the same as it was before NASA's latest data. NASA hasn't destroyed any asteroids.

What has reduced is the uncertainty because more information is available.

 

[3113]

Be prepared!

Whether you worry about them or not is entirely irrelevant to their causality.

It hasn't reduced the risk.

I didn't say NASA had reduced the risk. I only said I was less worried about it happening. And while my worry isn't relevant to their causality it does make a difference to in regards to the underground residence I'm currently building.

One has to have the right information in order to properly create one's secret shelter. There is a big difference between creating a shelter to survive the strike of an asteroid as compared to one prepared to survive the eruption of a super volcano. For example, how long is a nuclear winter likely to last in either scenario? What continent is the least likely to suffer from such an event, and would, therefore, be a good place to move to? What might survive and will it be eatable? And how should one cook it up if it is? One needs to know such things in order to carry on the human race without ending up with a tribe of of morlocks.

With the asteroid strike less likely, I can now concentrate on the super volcano. It makes things that much easier.

 

[Handley_Page]

"We know now where most of them are and where most of them are going. That really has reduced our risk" of an impact, said Amy Mainzer of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Did I hear "MOST", as opposed to ALL ?

 

[TxRad]

"We know now where most of them are and where most of them are going. That really has reduced our risk" of an impact, said Amy Mainzer of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Did I hear "MOST", as opposed to ALL ?

See Post #4 above.

 

[oggbashan]

I didn't say NASA had reduced the risk. I only said I was less worried about it happening...

You didn't but Amy Mainzer of NASA (in the quote in the first post) did.

She should know better. The risk might be better quantified, but the risk is exactly as it was.

 

[amicus]

There is more to it than that, unfortunately. The Asteroid Belt contains many Extinction Level objects and a stray comet or a perturbation or alignment of the Planets in just such a way, could bump one into an Earth crossing orbit with very little warning.

You might also add CME's Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun as one of the hazards to life on Earth or even a reversal of Earth's magnetic Poles, another extinction level event.

There is a much longer list I could add, but why spoil your party.

Amicus may be found here: http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=780633 still alive and kicking.

Hello to many old friends...

ami