Asteroid 2018VP1, a refrigerator-sized space-rock, is hurtling towards us at more than 40,000 km/hr.
It may buzz-cut Earth on Nov 2, the day before the Presidential Election.
It’s not big enough to cause harm. So if the World ends in 2020, it won’t be the fault of the Universe.
🚀 All for one, Crew-1 for all! NASA’s @SpaceX Crew-1 mission launched to the @Space_Station on Nov. 15, 2020, making it the first crew rotation mission of a commercial spacecraft. Relive the excitement, from launch through docking: https://t.co/ZF5hKPc792
The @SpaceX#CrewDragon hatch opened at 1:02am ET and astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi entered the station moments later joining the Exp 64 crew. https://t.co/yuOTrYN8CV
Would indeed be ironic if Donald Trump lost the presidential election by a margin of votes equal to the number of his supporters who died from COVID-19, for having refused to wear masks in public.
SCIENTISTS: “@OSiRISRex intercepted asteroid Bennu, 300-million km away, to retrieve samples for lab analysis.
RESPONSE: “Oooh!”
SCIENTISTS: “Research shows humans are catastrophically warming Earth”
RESPONSE: “That conflicts with what I want to be true, so it must be false.”