Remember last year when they found that asteroid that they thought might hit Earth in 2029? Well, it’s back, except this time it’s 2036.
The irony here is that the asteroid is named Apophis. Apophis is the Greek name for the Egyptian demon Apep, who was the deification of darkness and chaos. Darkness and chaos is exactly what will overtake the planet if Apophis does decide to hit Earth in 2036.
It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out though, given that it’s only 31 years from now and that’s basically the near future. They say we’ll have to have a decision about it by 2013. So if it’s a real threat and we have to take some kind of action to save the human race, it’ll certainly be an event without precedent.
But I’m sure that when the time comes, we can just put in a call to Bruce Willis and have him go save the world for us again. So we need not worry.
