Planetary DOOM: Earth

[mattster]

2068 you say. I will be approx 120 year old

If I'm still around I'll be 95. Maybe quite a nice way to go out.

[ladymuck]

FTFY

Well, you never know. Advances in science and medicine and all that.

He might be a head in a jar, like in Futurama.

[NotAllThere]

Vetran probably still celebrates them though.

That's a bit mean.

[SueEllen]

2068 you say. I will be approx a 120 year old corpse.

FTFY

[Andy2]

2068 you say. I will be approx 120 year old

[AtW]

He's dead. I don't think he'll be celebrating any more birthdays.

Yes, in 1958 the Occult Wars finally come to an end with the death of Adolf Hitler

[TestMangler]

He's dead. I don't think he'll be celebrating any more birthdays.

Vetran probably still celebrates them though.

[ladymuck]

It’s the nearest Friday 13th to Hitlers birthday

He's dead. I don't think he'll be celebrating any more birthdays.

[AtW]

Because asteroids keep track of Earth calendars and time their arrival to align to (in)auspicious dates across all.

It’s the nearest Friday 13th to Hitlers birthday

[ladymuck]

Because asteroids keep track of Earth calendars and time their arrival to align to (in)auspicious dates across all.

[AtW]

“Apophis will come within 32,000km (20,000 miles) of Earth on Friday 13 April 2029, enabling astronomers to get a good look. That is about one-tenth of the distance to the moon and closer than the communication satellites that encircle the Earth at 36,000km.”

Coincidence?

I don’t think so

[AtW]

Asteroid is running a wee bit late...

“Nasa has given Earth the all clear on the chances of an asteroid called Apophis hitting our planet any time in the next century, having worried space scientists for over 15 years.

The 340-metre (1,100ft) chunk of space rock hit the headlines in 2004 after its discovery led to some worrying forecasts about its orbit. It became a “poster child for hazardous asteroids”, according to one Nasa expert.

It was supposed to come frighteningly close in 2029 and again in 2036. Nasa ruled out any chance of a strike during those two close approaches a while ago, but a potential 2068 collision still loomed.

But new telescope observations mean that collision has been ruled out and Apophis has been officially taken off the US space agency’s asteroid “risk list”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/...ears-nasa-says