Science Possible Asteroid Strike Right Before U.S. Election.

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Why does it seem that this story keeps popping up and teasing us that the solution we deserve in 2020 is just always a hop skip and jump away in outer space? Why can’t we just get this over with and see if the wiping out the dinosaur theory is correct for cripes sake?

For what seems to be the umpteenth in the dumpster fire of the year 2020, we now are being told by world-renowned scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson, that we have a meteorite rushing towards Earth and could make it here just in time for the U.S. election. No word yet on if the Democrats will allow it to register to vote.

From Fox News…

An asteroid with a diameter the size of a refrigerator could strike the Earth the day before the November election, according to celebrity scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson — but it’s not large enough to do any serious damage.
The famed astrophysicist said the space rock, known as 2018VP1, is hurtling towards Earth at a speed of 25,000 miles per hour and may clip the planet on Nov. 2.
But he added that the flying object is nothing to lose sleep over since “it’s not big enough to cause harm.”
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HOLD UP. You are telling me that a refrigerator traveling at 25,000 miles per hour is not big enough or moving fast enough to cause harm? Someone watched too many Road Runner cartoons and took that stuff literally. I’m pretty sure a fridge traveling at 25 mph is gonna cause some damage and I don’t want to be the one it hits.

Luckily NASA has computed that this hunk of rock has less than a 1% chance of hitting the Earth which gives us about the same odds of dying from COVID-19 as this mini fridge doinking us on the noggin with our masks on while sitting outside.

We just can’t catch a break it seems. Maybe next year.
 
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Meat Target said:
We're supposed to get buzzed by some big'uns late this decade and sometime in the 2030s. They're supposed to miss the metaphorical "keyhole", but yeah, we don't know at this point.
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If its ever truly "confirmed" its going to most likely hit, I recall NASA saying their plan was to slowly "knock" its trajetory so it will miss Earth. Its like that Micheal Bay movie except instead of destroying it (which not only would be way harder but argurably make the situation worse) its a serious of controlled explosions to "push" it away from Earth (so its pretty much like Patrick Star's plan in a way).
 
"HOLD UP. You are telling me that a refrigerator traveling at 25,000 miles per hour is not big enough or moving fast enough to cause harm? Someone watched too many Road Runner cartoons and took that stuff literally. I’m pretty sure a fridge traveling at 25 mph is gonna cause some damage and I don’t want to be the one it hits."

Not big enough or moving fast enough to cause harm TO ANYONE ON THE GROUND. It's going to beat the crap out of itself slamming into the upper atmosphere and provide an entertaining light show in the process, The End.

Tyson is, IMO rather over-rated, But apparently T. LaDuke can't imagine somebody might actually know more them he does about something. He does produce podcasts, after all.
 
OnMoTi said:
Hey, black science man, thousands of meteorites hit the planet every year.
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It's actually an industry. Alaska and remote Canada hinterlands are hotspots for finding meteorites. Big cash for these things.
 
Strike San Fran to ashes baby
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The handsome tard said:
Asteroids dont work like they do in the movies, even a decently sized wouldnt cause apocalyptic damage to the planet (it could cause a huge mess and level entire cities but again, nothing humanity wiping).
Unless its the size of Kenya, an asteroid would be too "wasted" by the atmosphire to truly cause the damage you are asking for.
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What about throwing rocks from the moon?
 
rockfugees are welcomed

Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
Why should we trust astronomers when we have A&N posters who tell me that they know more than scientists do?
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They have an inherit bias to say things that will get them more funding. No one on A&N benefits directly from more money in scientific advancement so we're completely reliable
 
The Last Stand said:
Just what we needed.

The real question is how can Trump stop this or how is he responsible?
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Trump will be dancing about, yukking it up at a rally and the asteroid will plummet directly into him. It'll bounce off of his head, and he'll be like, 'ow, I think I just got stung by a bee.' He'll see the fallen asteroid and then pick it up. "I dub thee The Rock of Trumpaltar." He takes a bite out of it and with an approving nod deems it tasty. The crowd goes insane; woman ripping their bras off and burning them, ripping their panties off and tossing them on stage. Larry Bird sinks a 3 pointer from no man's land. The men all stand back with arms crossed, puffing on corncob pipes, faces aglow in smug grins of post-coital satisfaction. No one finishes their taco bowls, a great deal of food is wasted.
 
Its probably another nothingburger.
Journo said:
we now are being told by world-renowned scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Definitely a nothingburger.
 
It's the size of the fridge, will burn itself off of the atmosphere, and has something like a 0.041% chance of hitting Earth. NASA isn't panicking either. Even then, it was predicted to hit somewhere in the oceans.
If NASA was panicking, then that is is a "oh fuck" moment.
Leave space stuff to the actual professionals of space stuff, god damn. They already have enough unrelated doomers on their plate.
 
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