Not asteroid 86666 (2000 FL 10) Photo: Alamy
The doom-mongers have already been proved wrong once this week, when a date for the end of the world passed without incident on Wednesday.
Now the world has been given a second reprieve.
Nasa has confirmed that a giant asteroid passed safely by Earth on Saturday - considered a near-miss at a distance of 15 million miles away.
At 1.5 miles wide, a collision with asteroid 86666 (2000 FL 10) would have been catastrophic.
But on Friday Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab's Near Earth Object Office, which tracks asteroids, said it would not come closer than 15m miles (about half the distance between the orbits of Earth and Mars).
In August Nasa was forced to issue a statement denying reports of a deadly asteroid threatening earth.
Online conspiracy theorists claimed one would crash into Puerto Rico in September, causing widespread devastation to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the US, Mexico and Southern America.
Nasa tracks and characterises asteroids and comets passing within 30 million miles of Earth using telescopes on the ground and in space.
Overall the risk of a collision in the next 100 years is negligible. More precisely all known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids, as they are described, have less than a 0.01 per cent chance of hitting Earth in the next 100 years.
In August Nasa was forced to issue a statement denying reports of a deadly asteroid threatening earth.
Online conspiracy theorists claimed one would crash into Puerto Rico in September, causing widespread devastation to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the US, Mexico and Southern America.
Nasa tracks and characterises asteroids and comets passing within 30 million miles of Earth using telescopes on the ground and in space.
Overall the risk of a collision in the next 100 years is negligible. More precisely all known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids, as they are described, have less than a 0.01 per cent chance of hitting Earth in the next 100 years.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11923717/Phew-Nasa-says-giant-asteroid-will-miss-earth-by-15m-miles.html
Whitey Can’t Win
If whitey moves out of a black neighborhood, “white-flight”, he is racist. If whitey moves into a black neighborhood, “gentrification”, he is racist.
If whitey doesn’t give welfare to blacks he is racist. If white does give welfare to blacks he is “keeping them on the plantation” and is racist.
If whitey doesn’t let in non-white immigrants he is racist. If white does let in non-white immigrants he is subjecting them to “white privilege” and is racist.
If whitey builds up the Third World through colonization he is racist. If whitey doesn’t build up the Third World through foreign aid he is racist.
If whitey doesn’t promote Affirmative Action he isn’t giving non-whites a chance and is racist. If whitey does promote Affirmative Action he is peddling “the soft bigotry of low expectations” and is racist.
If whitey doesn’t celebrate non-white cultures he is “narrow minded” and is racist. If whitey does celebrate non-white cultures he is committing “cultural appropriation” and is racist.
If whitey doesn’t vote for a non-white candidate he is only doing so because of the candidate’s race and is racist. If whitey does vote for a non-white candidate he is only doing so because of the candidate’s race and is racist.
If whitey doesn’t create a history month for a non-white group he is racist. If whitey does create a history month for a non-white group he is “confining that group’s history to only a month” and is racist.
If whitey isn’t colorblind he is racist. If whitey is colorblind he is racist.
No matter what whitey does he is racist.
Whitey can’t win.
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