Comments on: Apophis danger downgraded

By: Plutonium being from Pluto

Plutonium being from Pluto — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:33:47 +0000

@ 52. Naked Bunny with a Whip Says:

@Plutonium being from Pluto: You added a word to my question, which was actually a tongue-in-cheek response to #31.

Yeah, well my response to your response was pretty tongue in cheek humour too!

Added a word? All I can think of there is ‘Apophis’ in brackets – is that what you mean?

@ Charlie in Dayton :

Reminds me of a B-grade movie where at the end the main character heroine is given huge congratulations for “postponing” a major disaster!

(She actually prevented it from happening – a nuclear meltdown of some sort I think – but I swear they *said* ‘postponing’ which really isn’t that good!)

By: Plutonium being from Pluto

Plutonium being from Pluto — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:33:46 +0000

Ooops! Inadvertant double post deleted by its clumsy author.

(Disaster postponed ..er prevented! )

By: Bad Astronomy | Curtropolis

Bad Astronomy | Curtropolis — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:48:22 +0000

[...] a result, stuff that I normal would not care about i.e. the danger level of Apophis, I get sucked into. Reason being, Mr. Plait explains why it’s really interesting and makes [...]

By: Charlie in Dayton

Charlie in Dayton — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:09:37 +0000

Does this mean there won’t be…

…(wait for it)…

…an Apophistrophe?

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:13:46 +0000

what sort of satellites are 30 000 km away?

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:54:34 +0000

62. JoeSmithCA

I started that story after your suggestion, then realized it would take WAY too much time to adequately develop the character interaction and since I’ve been writing another story for the last three months, I really have to concentrate on that one. I DID initiate the characters, some based upon people we all know and detest, such a an actress, named Jenny McKoont and her boyfriend, US President John Cloacus. Feel free to run with the idea and sell it to Syfy. I’m sure they can totally screw up the science if they try,,,

Gary 7

By: Paul A.

Paul A. — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:32:49 +0000

So the odds are 1 in 250,000 that the asteroid will and… End Human Civilization?! At what point do we worry? If it is risk versus reward we should worry now. At what point does earth redirect all its efforts and wealth to solve an highly unlikely but utterly devastating event? Of course thanks to religion a large portion of the society would opt for doing nothing and just praying the problem away, or accepting it as god’s will.