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What a bummer. How close is 7.5 million miles anyway?
Quote:Earth was minutes from asteroid alert
Scientists reveal they nearly warned Bush of potential devastation
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Posted: February 25, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Astronomers were within minutes of alerting President Bush to a potentially devastating asteroid they believed had a 25 percent chance of hitting Earth.
The asteroid turned out to be even bigger than expected, about 1,600 feet wide, but it eventually passed the planet at a distance of about 7.5 million miles, about 32 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon, BBC News reported.
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wow. were they also getting aerosmith ready to perform?
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Jesus all our chicks have to cry now before we die?
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bruce willis and ben affleck would have saved the day, for sure.
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Billy bob thornton would be involved. Owen Wilson would act retarded and Steve Buscemi would go crazy no less, yadda yadda.
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tea leoni would get crushed by a giant wave with her father.
it would be so tragic.
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i just hope that I wouldn't get eaten by some giant killer tomatoes.
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Id have to run to quiznos to try a toasty sub before i perish.
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[quote]Originally posted by header
What a bummer. How close is 7.5 million miles anyway?
7,500 times more than the distance I would walk just to be the guy who falls down at your door.
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25%? See, God is pleased with Mel Gibson's movie.
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i think it would have been funny to hear Bush talk about the 'evil-doers' who sent the asteriod. hey, maybe it would have been another reason to start a war.
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