Phew: NASA downgrades asteroid-strike threat
October 9, 2009
We’re safer from asteroids now than we are from trailer trash winning 7-figure lottery jackpots.
LOS ANGELES — NASA says the chances of an 885-foot (270-meter) asteroid striking Earth in 2036 have been downgraded. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,561902,00.html
Scientists initially believed there was a 1-in-45,000 chance that Apophis could hit the planet on April 13, 2036. But NASA said Wednesday the threat has been dropped to 1-in-250,000 after it recalculated the asteriod’s path.
Thoughts:
- They downgraded the chance that it will hit the earth on April 13, 2036…but what about April 14?
- One in 250,000 is still way better than hitting the lottery, and look how many people think that’s going to happen.
- I’m supposed to believe NASA about this when they missed a ring around Saturn so big you could fit 300 Saturns in a line inside it?
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