[Erebus]

So, who out there believes that the asteroid tipped to possibly hit the Earth on Feb 1st, 2019 really poses a threat? It's 2 kilometres wide and is expected to hit with a force equal to a 100 Hiroshima bombs. Are the scientists warning us or scaring us? What do you all think?

[Holbrook]

Well they said a remote chance of it hitting... that could mean anything.....

[Eventine]

Isn't it a 1 in 75,000 chance, and that is becoming less likely each week?

[Holbrook]

You have a one in three chance of dying of cancer.....

Only one of my sex in my family has made it over sixty....

My daughter's best friend died at the age of 13. Death comes when it comes.....

If you start worrying over everthing that could remotely kill you and yours you wouldn't get out of bed in a morning.....

[Jacquin]

1 in 75000? Pretty good odds when you compare it to the UK lottery. That works out at 1 in 14000000 and how many people do that every week?

J

[Talaith]

On the up side just look at all those craters on the Moon. It catches some of the interplanetary riff-raff for us.

On the down side, improbable does not equal impossible and the physics of really big rocks hitting our pretty blue planet is scary stuff.

Luckily there are scientists who study this sort of thing and work on ways to get us out of trouble.

[Jacquin]

I was listening to an interview about this on the World Service yesterday and the scientis there said that it didn't concern him much at all. The thing that concerned him was all the meteors that nobody has spotted yet, like the one that missed the planet by a mere 75000miles earlier this year which no-one spotted until it had passed!

If it's going to happen it's going to happen, nothing any of us can do.

J

[Talaith]

Except dig a really deep hole...



...or maybe move to another planet...



...and maybe give astronauts really big butterfly nets...

[Nevyn]

I hope it doesn't happen until a few of the book series have been finished and I've read them!!:)

[hollyshort]

i hope it happens quickly. i would love to see a comet wipe out the earth.