Brainsprain.net » armageddon http://www.brainsprain.net Now Optimized for iPhones! Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:33:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 After Chad Retired, An Asteroid Hit the Earth http://www.brainsprain.net/2007/02/20/after-chad-retired-an-asteroid-hit-the-earth/ http://www.brainsprain.net/2007/02/20/after-chad-retired-an-asteroid-hit-the-earth/#comments Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:13:24 +0000 Chad http://www.brainsprain.net/2007/02/20/after-chad-retired-an-asteroid-hit-the-earth/ Damn it! Turns out an asteroid is going to hit the earth on April 13, 2036. That’s only a month after my 65th birthday. Basically, that means that I will retire on our about March 25th, 2036, and then the world will become uninhabitable less than three weeks later. Why am I contributing to my 401k again?! Stupid asteroid…

Apophis Near Miss?

To give you an idea of how close it’s actually going to come (they’re saying that the chances of it hitting the Earth are something like 1 in 40,000 – MUCH better odds than winning the Lotto, by the way) I’ve grabbed the diagram to the left from Wikipedia.

The center of the circle is the Earth. That blue line is the path of the asteroid. That circle is the orbit of the MOON. That’s a little too close for comfort.

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