Holy Crap!!! Why Doesn't Anyone Care....

[Monster Dave]

...that the Earth was almost hit by an Asteroid yesterday? It wasn't on the news nor on any of the news websites!!



So it wasn't the size of one that would have caused our extinction, but it was 50 meters wide (164 feet)! That's no small rock!

It reportedly passed 7 Times closer to us that the moon and glowed so brightly that you could see it through full cloud coverage!!!

According to the one paper that did report on it, the Sidney Harold, at 12.40 yesterday morning, as the city slept, a previously unknown asteroid swept about 60,000 kilometres over the south-western Pacific.



"No object of that size, or larger, has been observed to come closer to the Earth," said Rob McNaught, of the Siding Spring Observatory, near Coonabarabran.

Come on people!!! This is some serious news!!! Why does noone seem to care?? How did we not know about this sooner???

[Grampa]

Bruce is on it.

no worries

[DucMouse the Mighty]

wow thats nutts!!

[herm]

read about it on google news
they new it was gonna miss...

[minnesotamonster]

Would you rather have had the media get ahold of the news beforehand, and let them blow it up and have everybody thinking the world was going to end?

Glad I didn't know, and nobody else did either. It missed. Couldn't have done anything anyways. Best just to let it go.

[DucLeone]

don't forget
our society doesn't register good news anymore only bad news count.
if USA woud race Russia in a heads on race and would win, the news wouldn't report that as we won,they would say we came in next to last,

same with the economy they constanty say how bad it is and  how bad its going to be and scare everybody so the won't spend the $$ ,just shut up and ppl start spending again.

just my .02

[Triple J]

don't forget
our society doesn't register good news anymore only bad news count.
if USA woud race Russia in a heads on race and would win, the news wouldn't report that as we won,they would say we came in next to last,

same with the economy they constanty say how bad it is and  how bad its going to be and scare everybody so the won't spend the $$ ,just shut up and ppl start spending again.

just my .02

+1

[Monster Dave]

+1

In respect to the thread - lets keep on cue - no threadjacking.

[Grampa]

the big rock in the sky is just whats needed

it'll do more damage than any cow fart or non twisty light bulb


it...will shut Al up.

and I will be happy

[JEFF_H]

nobody cares because asteroids dont have boobies.

[Monster Dave]

If it had hit, it would have been on par with the 1908 inpact in Siberia that wiped out about 1,250 square miles of forest.

Had that impacted a city or populated area in today's modern world:



The death toll would have been significant. To put that into perspective, at it's widest point, Texas is only 773 miles wide, so were talking an asteroid about 1 1/2 times the size of Texas.

[mitt]

If it had hit, it would have been on par with the 1908 inpact in Siberia that wiped out about 1,250 square miles of forest.

Had that impacted a city or populated area in today's modern world:



The death toll would have been significant. To put that into perspective, at it's widest point, Texas is only 773 miles wide, so were talking an asteroid about 1 1/2 times the size of Texas.

Yes, but Britney Spears is doing magic tricks on her new tour!


mitt

[lauramonster]

leave it to you guys to put in brevity where needed......

[herm]

"Scientists at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia spotted 2009 DD45 and began tracking it in late February when it was about 1 million miles away.

Spahr said he knew within an hour of that discovery that it would pose no threat to Earth." -- A.P.

[Triple J]

In respect to the thread - lets keep on cue - no threadjacking.

huh?  You asked why nobody cared...the answer I agreed with basically said because it missed us. The examples were a bit off topic, but the sentiment wasn't. The news ignored it because it was going to miss.

If it had hit, it would have been on par with the 1908 inpact in Siberia that wiped out about 1,250 square miles of forest.

The death toll would have been significant. To put that into perspective, at it's widest point, Texas is only 773 miles wide, so were talking an asteroid about 1 1/2 times the size of Texas.

Actually the asteroid was only 30-50 meters wide.

Also, 1,250 square miles is an area 35 miles by 35 miles...quite a bit smaller than the State of Texas. Damage would have only been a big deal if it hit a populated area.