Well, we're maybe all gonna die.On April 13, 2029, the near-Earth asteroid Apophis stands a 1 in 50 chance of coming close enough to Earth's gravity field to be pulled down into our atmosphere and slamming into Earth with the violent force of thousands of thermonuclear warheads, probably ending life as we know it.
If you go to page 18 of this PDF document on NASA's website, you'll see the exact trajectory of the asteroid's path of destruction, slaughtering tens of millions of souls across the Eastern Hemisphere (Wait, Eastern Hemisphere? Phew! I was gettin' worried there for a second!)
That trajectory, for those of you who don't like PDF files, runs across Hadrian's wall in northern Britain, across central Europe, the Black Sea, the Caucasus Mountains, over south central Asia, and finally over the northern tier of Southeast Asia. Any one of the countries along that line of impact could become ground zero for the point of impact of the wayward asteroid that will scorch the ground, rip out the atmospheric barrier between the planet's biosphere and the cold vacuum of space, flood the world's shores, and spell the end of human civilization.
Of course, I'll be like 66 years old by then, so if I'm not dead by then, I'll at least be too old to really care. But anyway, that's what I learned today.
Two percent chance. Whatever.
1 comment:
Hey dude, I'm 64, have been a rock and roll musician for over 40 years, not to mention a construction worker(that's what kept me alive, physical exercise)and I guarantee, you'll care. Life just gets better and better. Life ends when it ends, not when you get to a certain age.
peaceout, bobtom
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