{"id":82,"date":"2006-03-03T22:37:58","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T05:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=82"},"modified":"2006-03-03T22:37:58","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T05:37:58","slug":"world-ending-may-4-2102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"world ending May 4, 2102?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/layer8.typepad.com\/layer_8\/images\/vegas.jpg\/asteroid.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"138\" width=\"202\" alt=\"asteroid.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1060304\/asp\/foreign\/story_5924494.asp\"><\/p>\n<p>Spaceguard UK &#8211; Latest News<\/a>: &#8220;The rock, 2004 VD17, is about 500 metres (yards) long and has a mass of nearly a billion tonnes, which &#8212; if it were to impact &#8212; would deliver 10,000 megatonnes of energy, equivalent to all the world&#8217;s nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Spotted on November 27 2004, VD 17 was swiftly identified as rock that potentially crossed Earth&#8217;s orbit, with a 1 in 3,000 risk of collision on May 4 2102.<\/p>\n<p>Further observations and calculations have prompted the risk on that day to be upgraded to &#8216;a bit less than 1 in 1,000,&#8217; said NASA Near-Earth Object (NEO) expert David Morrison in an emailed circular.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One in a thousand just isn&#8217;t that remote of a chance, given an impact (no pun intended) of that magnitude.  The generation currently toddling around may still be alive &#8230; heck, if <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ray_Kurzweil\">Ray Kurzweil<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1579549543\/sr=8-1\/qid=1141446340\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/104-4221381-0766309?%5Fencoding=UTF8\">is right<\/a>, <em>we<\/em> may still be alive.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\">Warren Ellis<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaceguard UK &#8211; Latest News: &#8220;The rock, 2004 VD17, is about 500 metres (yards) long and has a mass of nearly a billion tonnes, which &#8212; if it were to impact &#8212; would deliver 10,000 megatonnes of energy, equivalent to all the world&#8217;s nuclear weapons. Spotted on November 27 2004, VD 17 was swiftly identified <a href='https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=82'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}