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The Asteroid No One Is Talking About. It either has a 0% or 92% chance of hitting Earth in 2062.

Posted by The News Junkie at 15:03 | Comments (28) | Trackbacks (0)

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Douchebaggery of the highest degree.

#1 Aggie on 2020-05-05 15:26 (Reply)

Just so.

#1.1 barnhill on 2020-05-05 16:34 (Reply)

Yes, Lie to me. That will convince me you are truthful and correct.

#1.2 Richard Pinkerton (Link) on 2020-05-05 20:10 (Reply)

So many on the left seek to alarm people into actions, using fear to shut down logical thinking and minimize downsides of policy. False equivalences abound as in this piece, making an hypothetical asteroid impact a tool to sermonize about global warming.

We see this technique in our SARS2 epidemic, where fear of an overblown computer-model generated panic drives out acknowledgement of the morbidity and mortality resulting from the measures taken by political authorities.

The SARS2 Models are wrong. When adjusted, there is no improvement. The climate models have had 30 years to show predictive efficacy and have failed, yet are still treated as scripture. Why continue believing these garbage in, garbage out "answers"?

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me a second time, shame on me.

#2 Hal Dall MD on 2020-05-05 15:39 (Reply)

I'll be dead well before then.

#3 Sam L. on 2020-05-05 15:40 (Reply)

I think the Asian Murder Hornets will get me first. I couldn't sleep all night thinking about that.

#4 Jim on 2020-05-05 15:54 (Reply)

I already died when President Trump got rid of net neutrality.

#4.1 egd on 2020-05-05 19:45 (Reply)

By that time there probably be a bidding war for the mining rights.

#5 Ed (Link) on 2020-05-05 16:09 (Reply)

Bidding war? It'll belong to whoever can steer it into orbit around the Earth. I suggest the L5 position; in the Moon's orbit, but 60 degrees behind the Moon.

#5.1 Kenneth Mitchell (Link) on 2020-05-05 21:28 (Reply)

More bait-and-switch bullshit from the AGW gang. I suggest nukes, with one extra as a suppository for the article's author.

#6 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2020-05-05 16:45 (Reply)

"Bait and switch."

Precisely, Mike Anderson.

He starts his story with one fairy tale and then transitions to another.

#6.1 feeblemind on 2020-05-05 17:18 (Reply)

Well said....he transitions from one fairy tale to another as only a well trained Progressive can do. He is a total bunghole.

#6.1.1 Barton Brown on 2020-05-07 09:28 (Reply)

So Medium erases anything contrarian to popular mythology of the WuFlu but this garbage stands? Yup, almost like it is run by Alphabet soup company or Twatter.

#7 Dwayne on 2020-05-05 17:55 (Reply)

Meh!

#8 Stargazer on 2020-05-05 18:25 (Reply)

Mr. Smith drank the Kool-Aid.

#9 rocdoctom on 2020-05-05 19:00 (Reply)

the author writes:
"Second, non-renewable energy is dirty. (Would you rather be locked into an airtight garage with an internal combustion car running, or an electric car running?)"

I guess he's too stupid to realize that the electricity must come from somewhere, most likely from coal or another polluting source, or hydro-electric dams that destroy fish habitats, or windmills that kill millions of birds every year, or photovoltaic cells which create pollution when they manufactured.
yes, I called him stupid, i was being charitable, because what i really meant to say was that he was an evil son-of-a-bitch.

#10 nunnya bidnez jr on 2020-05-05 19:22 (Reply)

Thanks,News Junkie. You just wasted 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

#11 Frank on 2020-05-05 20:23 (Reply)

The original reports were based on an insufficient number of observations. Now that we have another 40 years of data, we know it's going to miss.

Plus, by 2062, Elon Musk's successors at SpaceX will probably be able to capture it and steer it into orbit. It would be VERY useful to park a large mass in the L5 point, and make it into a space habitat.

#12 Kenneth Mitchell (Link) on 2020-05-05 21:24 (Reply)

There is no asteroid.
Read to the end.

#12.1 Bull on 2020-05-06 01:01 (Reply)

There are BILLIONS of asteroids, and if that particular one turns out to be a software glitch, don't worry; there are others on the way.

Remember Chelyabinsk.

#12.1.1 Kenneth Mitchell (Link) on 2020-05-06 02:22 (Reply)

There is no "that one."
Read to the end.

#12.1.1.1 Bull on 2020-05-06 03:23 (Reply)

(to the author) - Are we still talking about the thoroughly discredited hockey stick and backing it up with partisan BS? That is why no one cares anymore.

#13 tim ferrell on 2020-05-06 06:18 (Reply)

I live in Sydney, Australia. The celestial event I'm looking forward to is a total solar eclipse, Saturday 22nd July 2028, duration more than 3 minutes. It will come to me, I won't have to go anywhere.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_22,_2028

[It's 8:35pm, Wed 6 May 2020, now in Sydney]

#14 Tom Appleton on 2020-05-06 06:35 (Reply)

Saw my first total eclipse 2-1/2 years ago. I had seen several partial eclipses, but the difference is ... well, like night and day.

#14.1 Frank on 2020-05-06 07:29 (Reply)

I find the economic argument for renewable energy to be the most laughable. If it's so cheap and easy, why aren't people getting rich off of it and becoming overnight Rockefellers? They claim tha solar and wind are so much cheaper than oil and coal, yet they want government to force everything and everyone to use it.

One year after this article was written we have more oil than we have places to store it.

#15 Jack Walter on 2020-05-06 08:14 (Reply)

I can safely state that after visiting Maggie’s Farm for what seems to be at least 10 years that this is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read here. And it’s from 2018. Climate Change and Asteroids. Just add-in some Alien landings and I think the “author” read propagandist, would have a movie script.

#16 MF on 2020-05-06 08:46 (Reply)

Bullshit article. Fake asteroid scare story morphs into a climate nag.

#17 LAG on 2020-05-06 09:06 (Reply)

If you posted the link because you did not read the entire thing, please be more careful in the future.

Save everyone a lot of time and add some kind of comment to spare future readers...

This is just clickbait...

#18 Earl Wertheimer (Link) on 2020-05-06 10:47 (Reply)

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