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Why worry about Iraq and terrorism and gay marriage? By 2036, we’ll all be dead anyway — or at least as-good-as if a certain asteroid manages to dance a little to the left so that it can slam into the Earth on its round-trip.
Yes, once again we’re being told that an asteroid is headed our way, but like every other doomsday prediction this one has a slew of caveats if we want everything to work out exactly wrong. The asteroid will certainly miss us on its first pass on April 13, 2029 (yes, it’s a Friday). But if it passes through a keyhole in space — one of a handful of 2,000-foot pockets of gravity — that could reposition it just enough to slam it home 11 years later.
So the question now is this: Do we shoot something up at Asteroid 99942 now and nudge it half-a-mile (which we can do) and buy us some insurance, or wait and see what happens and possibly need to shove it roughly 8,000 miles later (which we can’t)?
Posted on July 26, 2005 at 01:39PM • 1 Comments • Permalink • Read more in Science Friction
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