Asteroid Cruises Past Earth ... With a Partner! »
Posted By DiffeeOnline 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyA good-sized asteroid sailing past our planet right now turns out to be two giant rocks doing a celestial jig. The setup, catalogued as 2008 BT18, was thought to be nearly a half-mile wide after its discovery by MIT's LINEAR search program in January. Nothing else was known about it.
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CHAM2 months, 3 weeks ago
Wow! Gloom and Doom, and even a little political comment, whatever you call the second astroid remember the name Apophis. Should this one hit earth on its first or more likely second pass, it could be a life extinction event.
The Aztecs predicted the earth would be destroyed in 2012 by sun activity. Then there's super volcanos, the one contained in the Magma dome in the Great Basin could wipe out life in the United States if it erupted in all its potential. Then there's crustal slippage, pole flipping, good gosh, you talk about Gloom and Doom, there's plenty to hope against. Course I'm writing about things we would have absolutely no way to stop.
All I can say is grin and bear it.
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memestryker2 months, 3 weeks ago
I don't worry much. I expect it will be quick, if/when it happens.
As far as living life to the fullest, as that great philosopher Janis Joplin sang, "Get it while you can."
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