# Asteroid on possible collision course with Earth **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2002, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-on-possible-collision-course-with-earth/101866 "2002-04-04T21:24:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Robb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Robb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robb)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-on-possible-collision-course-with-earth/101866/21 "2002-04-05T17:39:38Z")
Thanks **lolagranola** , some people around here have been complaining that it’s still cold. now I can tell them it will definitely warm up sooner than we expected. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-on-possible-collision-course-with-earth/101866/22 "2002-04-05T19:49:35Z")
I have a _huge_ pile of dishes in the kitchen sink. What’s the point of doing them if, after all, we are going to be hit by an asteriod? I mean, the asteriod doesn’t care if my kitchen is tidy or not… Why worry about dishes when I have to worry about asteroids? ---
**Author:** ![Castaldi\_of\_the\_Mazzharat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Castaldi\_of\_the\_Mazzharat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Castaldi_of_the_Mazzharat)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-on-possible-collision-course-with-earth/101866/23 "2002-04-05T19:51:47Z")
Well damn, now you sound like a nihilist! What’s the point of going on if there’s nothing to go on for? Asteroid’s coming! The world may as well not exist! Damn it, you’re right. I’m going to stop working too. 😛 Think they’d let me slide with that? Hehehehe. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-on-possible-collision-course-with-earth/101866/24 "2002-04-05T21:30:17Z")
[Homer Simpson]Ah, it’ll probably burn up once it hits all the pollution in the atmosphere.[/Homer Simpson] ---
**Author:** ![Castaldi\_of\_the\_Mazzharat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Castaldi\_of\_the\_Mazzharat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Castaldi_of_the_Mazzharat)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-on-possible-collision-course-with-earth/101866/25 "2002-04-05T21:45:18Z")
You are here ----\> O ``` * <--- Asteroid is here ``` Fuck it. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-on-possible-collision-course-with-earth/101866/26 "2002-04-05T22:09:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sailor \* > \*\*Why worry about dishes when I have to worry about asteroids? \*\* This sounds like the lead-in to bad TV commercial for creams and salves for certain _personal_ afflictions. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Beastal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Beastal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastal)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-on-possible-collision-course-with-earth/101866/27 "2002-04-07T05:33:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stinky \* > \*\*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. \*\* We **could** ship 6 billion people to the red planet, **or** we could prevent the asteroid from hitting… _“hmmmmm…”_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-on-possible-collision-course-with-earth/101866.md?page=1)