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Asteroid passes within 75,000 miles of the Earth

The chilling aspect is that the potential bolide was only detected days after its perigee (point of closest Earth approach). If it had struck anywhere near the Indian subcontinent, both India and Pakistan would have unleased their nuclear arsenals thinking that it was a first strike from the opposing country.

I remember watching a T.V program on this same subject, and some guy was like there are more people wokring in your local McDonalds then there are looking for Planet Killer Rocks.

-Antonio

Revelation 8

10The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-- 11the name of the star is Wormwood.[1] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
12The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.

Footnotes

8:11 That is, Bitterness

See, Ed, I can troll too, lol.

You're absolutely right Antonio,

The NEO is woefully understaffed. It is hard to believe that the search for near earth objects is so low on the priority list. I guarantee that if an impact had occurred, priorities would change very quickly after that point.

...if anyone survived...

If history has taught anything, it would be that being proactive towards threats prevents them. Being reactive merely helps clean up the mess afterwards.

I guarantee funding won't get any better until one slams inside the D.C beltway...

With that, I'll unleash yet another one of my favorite quotes:

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
-Albert Einstein

Yeah unfortunatley it looks like an impact would be the onyl thing to get people off their @$$es and looking towards the sky. It's a fact we're going to be hit again..it's merely a matter of time, and the sections of sky beign searched, are so small it's almost pointless. I think our governments shoudl act now on this before it's too late. The difference between us and the dinosaurs, or any other life form on this planet..is we have the ability to prevent this from happening again!

Say we do find something that can cause catastrophe coming at us. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it (sorry "Armageddon" fans). The only way is if we had around a decade to devise some form of interception. Even after that, though, I think we overestimate our ability to change the course of a very large celestial object.

I meant get pro active about it so in say 100 years when there actually is a big rock headed at us, we can stop it.

what build a giant baseball glove to catch the thing???