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A huge, kilometer-wide asteroid will pass by Earth today:
It will pass within 1.2 million miles of our planet, moving at 47,344 miles per hour, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies, which tracks potentially hazardous comets and asteroids that could collide with our planet.
The approaching asteroid is known as 7482 (1994 PC1), and it was discovered in 1994, according to NASA.
Nobody expects 7482 (1994 PC1) to hit Earth, but it's the closest the asteroid will come for the next two centuries, according to NASA projections. The asteroid is expected to be at its nearest to our planet at 4.51 p.m. ET.
[...] It won't be the largest asteroid ever to sweep past Earth. That honor belongs to the asteroid 3122 Florence (1981 ET3), which flew by and missed colliding with Earth on September 1, 2017. That asteroid is estimated to be between 2.5 miles and 5.5miles wide, and it will make another pass on September 2, 2057.
[...] While the asteroid is unlikely to be visible today with the naked eye, amateur astronomers with a small telescope should be able to spot it, according to the website EarthSky.com.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 18 2022, @08:53PM (6 children)
Actually, they're filled with fully vaccinated and boostered people. Don't forget your next booster!
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/13/oxford-university-study-says-omicron-can-hit-the-double-vaccinated.html [cnbc.com]
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2022/01/13/omicron-vaccination-rates [advisory.com]
The narrative isn't working, Danny. Tune in to another channel for your talking points. Pick one that says that COVID will become endemic, everyone will get it, and it will become something of a rite of passage, rather like chicken pox and measles used to be.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Mockingbird on Tuesday January 18 2022, @09:19PM
Measles, you say? Polio? Massive hookworm infestations?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Samoa_measles_outbreak [wikipedia.org]
Of course, if it's not things falling out of the sky, the earth itself might try to kill you [arkansasonline.com].
(Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Tuesday January 18 2022, @09:20PM (2 children)
If you're vaccinated and do get Covid, you're far less likely to have to spend time in the hospital or die, at least according to the CDC's study of the incidence of breakthrough infections [cdc.gov], which involves enough people that the conspiracy would have to be gigantic for them to be all lying about it.
So by your logic, if there's a 3% chance of a bad thing happening, that's identical in every way to a 30% chance of that bad thing happening, and only a fool would take a completely safe step to reduce their risks. Got it.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 18 2022, @09:31PM (1 child)
All conspiracies are gigantic. Unless they are vast, as Hillary pointed out.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @12:24AM
What's up Maureen!
(Score: 5, Informative) by Mykl on Tuesday January 18 2022, @09:38PM
I assume you're talking about your own narrative, Runaway?
Unvaccinated people are about 30 times more likely [time.com] to end up in ICU or dead than vaccinated people. The vaccine isn't a silver bullet, but more like kevlar armor.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @03:41AM
Seems Runaway's sock puppets are out in force tonight.