Do any of you worry about meteors hitting the Earth?

Question

is it socially acceptable for you to worry? I'm not worrying, I'm just asking.

Answer 1

No, since by definition, a meteor or meteoroid is at maximum only 10 meters across.

What you really need to be worried about is asteroids :P

Answer 2

lol im not worried right now BUT i will be worried ....earth was hella close to get hit in 1996 we were so damn lucky the meteroid missed us by 200 miles i think (not exactly sure i think it was less) yes it is acceptable because though as one of the answers said we are getting hit everyday except there not big enough to do damage we have about 600,000 thousand object in space (had to do a report on space pollution) and they sometimes come in and hit us but no damage is done .. im just curious what the world will do when NASA says that were gonna be HIT BY A METEROID ...USA says they'll shoot nukes against the meteroid and usa knows that it wont work cause it'll just make it into more small pieces and we'll be even more screwed....a meteroid impact can release asmuch power as about 1.5billion (or million i cant remember exactly) Nukes can....so thats alot of power and we be dead in a couple of seconds or minutes...but we're really expecting it is that if we hit a meteroid from a far place with a nuke spilt it into two pieces and goes past eart then its all good..but hey earth roatating 24/7/365 no break at all...so we dont have much chance of getting hit except the war that is going on...lol

Answer 3

There is a small team of people (enough to man a Mcdonalds) working for NASA tracking all objects heading in and around the earths vacinity.

If an object sufficiently large enough were heading towards earth, there maybe nothing we could do about it.

The meteor that killed the dinosaurs was about 8 miles in diameter.


SLEEP TIGHT!

Answer 4

no. meteors hit the earth all the time, just none big enough to do any damage, not for next 1000 years at least. be more worried about USA NUKE hitting the earth. that is socially acceptable.

Answer 5

Its not socially acceptable unless your considered eccentric (and not crazy). But it rare for people to actually be hit by them. I know of 2 cases in history and both were injured only minorly, with bruising.

If your talking planet killer's hitting Earth, I'd spend more time worrying about a plane dropping out of the sky on me, the odds are just more realistic.

Answer 6

Worry?No. Acceptable? Yes.

Meteor strikes of significant size to cause harm are rare so obviously your are more likely to be killed by any number of more boring deaths. So I don't worry for myself or even my family.

But I do have a slight worry for "mankind". To think of all that we as a species have created and learned being wiped out in a few years of painful death and starvation ... that sucks! So worry away!

Answer 7

It's a scary thought, but since there's really nothing I could do about it even if I knew one were coming, I try to spend my worrying on more productive things, like how I can get through the semester without failing anything.

Answer 8

I don't think it's socially acceptable to worry. And it works for me since I don't.

Answer 9

well it isnt impossible but we have the moon and a few other planets as our shields. Once a meteor tried it would get pulled into the rotation of the planets most likely

Answer 10

well i have worried but mainly most meteors would burn up in the atmosphere.i suppose that if a meteorite was big as a small building,it might not burn up as fast and could hit the earth.so it is entirely plausable.