[cmo1037]

A NASA scientist is warning that Earth is due for an “extinction-level” event like a comet or asteroid strike — and claims there won’t be anything we can do to stop it.http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/12/14/nasa-scientist-warns-earth-is-due-for-extinction-level-event.html

 

[harbinger1972]

Heard some of this on radio earlier. Thanks for posting.

 

[harbinger1972]

What I heard talked about Cannonball tech as well as Nukes.

 

[ksmedman]

So, no use in worrying about it. Can't do a damn thing about it, why stress?

 

[Tactical Lever]

Scientists are human and fallible last time I checked. Most of them have a poor record at guessing at things that already happened!

They can't even predict the weather with consistent accuracy despite the advanced technology to aid them. Why worry about what one of them is guessing at in the future?

 

[Guntoteninfadel]

We are due several catastrophic events. some time in the next 1000 years something really bad is going to happen!

 

[Justme11]

Can't we build a wall?

 

[OKCorral]

We are due several catastrophic events. some time in the next 1000 years something really bad is going to happen!

Note to self: Set the cryo pod to 3017 or if unavailable don't reincarnate for a really loooong time.

NASA tries way too hard to keep itself relevant in the public eye by writing up voodoo science articles every week. I love their cameras that capture tiny dots from billions of miles away. Okey dokey.

 

[AIMwell]

But we have those oil platform rig guys. Right.. Right?!?

Ill be raptured before global extinction. And it wont happen quite that way. Will it?

 

[Justme11]

I will save you. But I don't want to pay taxes again... ever.

 

[John_Auberry]

The old the world is ending thing again.

 

[badlands]

Well I wish it would hurry up, I'm tired of waiting!

 

[Creek Walker]

Even if there were a extinction level event asteroid headed this way NASA wouldn't tell anyone. It would be an amateur astronomer that would break the news.

 

[prepgirl]

yeah...cant even predict the weather over night for a 7 hour period...watch the weather ...blanket up my horses and they are either sweating in the am or it drops crazy low temp and wasn't supposed to. so sick of the "experts".

 

[Old Soldier]

Trump did it....

 

[9111315]

Trump did it....

. . . but he blamed bush.

 

[NoFlyZone]

Sounds like a good plot for a movie.



Hey...wait a minute!

 

[MattB4]

From what I gather we are already experiencing a extinction level event. Just slower than being clobbered by a meteor would produce.

 

[NY Min]

Just slower than being clobbered by a meteor would produce.

Yep. All those movie plots are much more exciting, but we're probably going to go out with a whimper, not a bang, just slowly sinking out of sight in the swamp of our own stupidity.

 

[NY Min]

So, no use in worrying about it. Can't do a damn thing about it, why stress?

NASA was probably hoping you'd think your way through it. If there's nothing we can do to stop an extinction event occurring on Earth, then clearly the only long-term hope for survival of our species is to get a bunch of the human race moved to somewhere besides Earth. Which means NASA might be relevant again. (Although likely no better at producing good engineering–they had to hire my brother as a contractor to try to fix their shuttle mess. He retired off that deal.) :