Obama Slow in Reacting to Asteroid Strike in 2036 Posted by Adam Blickstein

In 2036, NASA scientists predict that Asteroid 99942 Apophis could possibly strike Earth, causing widespread devastation and the possible extinction of life as we know it:

Were it to strike Earth, it would not set off global havoc but would generate significant local or regional damage, experts say.

Worrisome to asteroid watchers is the exceptionally close flyby of Earth by Apophis on April 13, 2029. So close in fact, the space rock will be naked-eye visible as it darts by. And what can't be ruled out at this time is that Apophis may pass through a gravitational "keyhole" - a spot that alters the asteroid's trajectory as it zips by our planet and might put it on the bee-line lane for banging into Earth seven years later.

If it enters that deadly keyhole, plainly put, we are doomed. As Daniel Baker recently said in the Ledger of Lakeland, Florida, "let us not ignore the threat at our doorstep." Sadly, last night, President Obama did just that and ignored this imminent threat to American, global, and galactic security. Instead of addressing how Earth can avoid our looming annihilation and probable worldwide extinction, he focused on the Skip Gates controversy, something even he admitted he did not know all the facts on. This isn't the first time Obama has been slow to react to issues of global importance, as the GOP's Congressional Committee Spokesman Ken Spain so coherently pointed out:

“The president was slow to point out any wrongdoing in the wake of the Iranian election and his administration was quick to force through a failed stimulus plan even though they ‘misread’ the economy. This is certainly a questionable rush to judgment coming from a president who hasn’t exactly been quick to call out unconscionable behavior by a merciless foreign dictator."

Slow on Iran. Slow on the stimulus. But a rush to judgment over a police action in another state Obama doesn't even know the facts about? And now, the President is silent as a giant piece of space rock hurtles through the solar system a collision course with humanity's refuge amongst the stars. Even his own space agency acknowledges that an impact would be catastrophic, more dire than "those seen as a result of the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004, Hurricane Katrina" and currently preparation for this pending cataclysm is "basically out of sight...out of mind." But all President Obama seems to want to do is hastily talk about the arrest of Skip Gates, not deadly space rocks. Thankfully, Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Owen Wilson and Michael Bay are taking action where the President seems to be absent on Armageddon. They, it seems, are humanity's last, great hope.

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[Scott Johnson]

cut the hype...please

"the possible extinction of life as we know it"
"If it enters that deadly keyhole, plainly put, we are doomed"

If it hits your city, then yeah, your dead if you are home at the time but this thing isn't big enough to be a global killer.

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"imminent threat to American, global, and galactic security"

galactic security - despite what you may have seen in the movies the USA doesn't have colonial soldiers fighting bugs in space.

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"can avoid our looming annihilation and probable worldwide extinction,"

again not big enough...do some research.

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"hurtles through the solar system a collision course with humanity's refuge amongst the stars"

so this asteroid is currently in our solar system? arrival is 20 years in 2029 and it is closer than pluto? mighty slow rock.

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"Thankfully, Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Owen Wilson and Michael Bay are taking action where the President seems to be absent on Armageddon. They, it seems, are humanity's last, great hope."

You do know that was fictional? Not a documentary from the History Channel.

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