1% Chance of Asteroid Impact

[Briar Lee]

Those that calculate such matters have calculated there is a 1% chance a fairly good sized asteroid will impact earth in 2032, and if it does, it will be bad, at least where it hits.

Asteroid triggers global defence plan amid chance of collision with Earth in 2032

Hundred-metre wide asteroid rises to top of impact risk lists after being spotted in December by automated telescope

www.theguardian.com

In the days before supercomputers, did anyone worry about these things?

 

[carp rides again]

Time to stock up is now

 

[Briar Lee]

Time to stock up is now

But if, you were 100% certain to climb the golden stairs on a day certain 7 years from now, that might factor in your cellaring.

 

[LeafErikson]

Thank you for this post, Briar Lee. It’s inspired me to quit my job, abandon my wife and children, and spend all of my money on cocaine and hookers. Everything is ephemeral in the end anyhow.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

 

[Briar Lee]

The earth is vast, and we are small by comparison.

But a 100 meter asteroid is about twice the diameter (and many times the mass) of the meteor involved in the 1908 Russian meteorite strike.

Tunguska event - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

There would be no radioactive fallout, but the blast would wipe out any of the world’s great cities, unless they wisely packed up and left before it struck.

I reckon the closer it gets the better idea they’ll know if and where and when it will impact.

 

[Dave760]

Note to self: Die before 2032. Avoid the rush.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

We had it coming to us.

 

[Servant King]

Ugh. Well, so much for my plan to age that pound of PSLBF for a decade...

 

[dottlejockey]

In the days before supercomputers, did anyone worry about these things?

The dinosaurs didn't. I think we took the lesson from them.

In any event, let come what may; until then, smoke it if ya go it.

 

[beefeater33]

You have WAY too much time on your hands now, counciler.............

 

[brian64]

Thank you for this post, Briar Lee. It’s inspired me to quit my job, abandon my wife and children, and spend all of my money on cocaine and hookers. Everything is ephemeral in the end anyhow.

That must be that demon lighting your pipe talking in your ear. If you’re getting ready to check out, you better lean in the other direction.

 

[brian64]

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Quick, run out and get some experimental gene therapy from a company with legal immunity…it’s the obvious thing to do.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Quick, run out and get some experimental gene therapy from a company with legal immunity…it’s the obvious thing to do.

Iirc, the "middle class white way to cure SARS" Stan eventually found consisted of DayQuil, Campbell's Chicken Soup and Sprite.

 

[JOHN72]

The trumpets of the apocalypse are already here.

 

[huntertrw]

 

[BingBong]

It's late! Apparently, Jimi Hendrix predicted 2027, according to Rock Prophecy, a wild read if ever there was one. I wonder if Bukowski ghost-wrote it?

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

It's late! Apparently, Jimi Hendrix predicted 2027, according to Rock Prophecy, a wild read if ever there was one. I wonder if Bukowski ghost-wrote it?

Bobby Baccalieri: “Mom started going downhill after the World Trade Center. You know Quasimodo predicted all this.”

Tony Soprano: “Who did what?”

Bobby: “All these problems—the Middle East, the end of the world.”

Tony [shaking his head, like a teacher correcting a very errant student]: “Nostradamus. Quasimodo's the Hunchback of Notre Dame.”

Bobby: “Oh right. Notre Damus.”

Tony: “Nostradamus, and Notre Dame. Two different things completely.”

 

[JOHN72]

We have a real cocktail of threats. Hopefully it will go away, although this news is great for the pharmaceutical companies, because the consumption of antidepressants is soaring, and the rise in the stock market of drug trafficking is soaring.

 

[Briarcutter]

Wonder if Musk called Willis yet?