The Daily Orange

The science guy

Abstract:
Bill Nye wants us to prevent a 390-meter wide asteroid from destroying Earth in 2036. The asteroid Apophis, named for an ancient Egyptian demon that attempted to create eternal darkness, is scheduled to collide with Earth in 2036. Currently NASA has no solutions....

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Henry Rosenberg

posted 3/20/08 @ 2:48 PM EST

Scientifically speaking, the article would be even better if it told us what the evidence is that the asteroid will collide with our home planet.

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Amazon Herbs

posted 3/22/08 @ 5:40 PM EST

Very interesting article. I guess we will have to send people in a ship to plant nuclear warheads on the asteroid.

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Ben

posted 4/16/08 @ 8:28 PM EST

Sign me up for the Armageddon plan! I'd gladly gamble my life for the prize of never paying taxes again. Btw, Bill Nye is the only person in history ever to look cool wearing a pocket protector/bow tie/lab coat. I used to watch his show religiously. Science Rules!

-Stumbled-upon.

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