http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/04/04/lost.asteroid/index.html
Didn’t we have an official resident doper whose job it was to worry about these things?
I think the Doper in question was/is Sea Sorburst.
Yeah, where is… uhh, that guy, when you need him? Hmm, I think I’ve forgotten his name. Ah, I see RTFirefly has provided it. Don’t remember seeing Sea since before the downtime.
Anyways, about the article, barring a incredible increase in longevity technology, I think I’m going to take the selfish approach and ignore the problem.
The sky is falling!
Uh, in a bunker somewhere?
Asteroid in 900 years, huh? Well, darn. That sucks.
I have Aerosmith songs and pictures of Billy Bob playing in my head.
Where’s Bruce Willis when you need him?!
http://home.pe.net/~mjagee/exit.html
see 5. g.
Man, my 6 year old son is aready upset that the sun may go nova in 5 billion years…I’m keeping this news flash away from him.
Oh crap! I better prepare!
::Opens umbrella::
::waits::
If we can’t come up with an effective defense against asteroid impacts in 900 years, then I say the hell with us.
Apathetic bloody planet, I’ve no sympathy at all.
So does this mean we can quit recycling and become hedonists before it gets here?
Hell, I’m ahead of the curve!
I assume that the asteroid is the first stage of the Vogons building that new hyperspace bypass? I hope they won’t read their poetry at us first.
I have here the collected poems of Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings.
For sufficient remuneration, I won’t read them to you. 
[homer simpson voice]
Just wait. The asteroid will whiz by us at a ‘cosmic near-miss’, which is what the number ‘bazillion miles’ was invented for and we’ll all be - HOLY-
(whumpf)
[/homer simpson voice]
Does this mean that we don’t have to worry about the Y10K problem? 
“… I mean you’re NASA for cryin’ out loud! You put a man on the moon; you’re geniuses. You’re the guys that think this **** up. I’m sure yo got a team of men sittin’ around somewhere right now, just thinkin’ **** up and somebody backin’ them up!” - Harry Stamper, Armageddon
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but according to my astronomy class, we’re expecting changes in the sun about a billion years from now that will render Earth into a dry, desert planet.
You have less time than you think. I suggest that you get out of your reincarnation cycle right now.
Hopefully we won’t have all our eggs in the same basket by then
Time to get serious about that Mars colony now so we have time to make it self suficent.