well before the superfart gets to us we have this issue

"A large asteroid in space that has a remote chance of slamming into Earth would most likely hit in 2182, if it crashes into our planet at all, a new study suggests.

The asteroid, called 1999 RQ36, has about a 1-in-1,000 chance of actually hitting the Earth, but half of that risk corresponds to potential impacts in the year 2182, said study co-author Mar Eugenia Sansaturio of the Universidad de Valladolid in Spain.

Sansaturio and her colleagues used mathematical models to determine the risk of asteroid 1999 RQ36 impacting Earth through the year 2200. They found two potential opportunities for the asteroid to hit Earth in 2182."

...???

the wording of this article confuses me.

first, the asteroid will hit us in 2182, if at all??? no possible chance later?

second, there are two potential opportunities to hit us... unless it hits us the first time of course...

third, they say "there is a 1 in 1000 chance it hits us, but half the risk corresponds to potential impacts in 2182." what the hell does that mean?

this is the worst example of "sensational journalism" meets poorly interpreted science.

jeez, no wonder people don't want to get into science, it sounds like we're all idiots.

who's da man?

read this...

http://failuremag.com/index.php/site/print/to_the_supercave/

it speaks for it's self.

when will we smell it?

well even a black hole needs to relieve itself every now and again.

a black hole has been farting a gas bubble for the last 200,000 years or so....

now that's what i call a real ripper!

it's over 1,000 light years in diameter and growing at 1,000,000 kilometers per hour.

so how long till we get a whiff?

let's see...

the black hole is 12 million light years away.

a light year is how far light travels in a year, which is 9.46e+12 kilometers.

so,

moving at 1e+6 km/hr, it will take 9.46e+6 hrs to travel one light year,

multiply this by the distance of the bubble from us, namely 12e+6 light years, and it will take approximately 1.14e+14 hrs; a 114 trillion hours. a hundred-and-fourteen trillion hours!

if one lives to age 80 years (hopefully no longer since your pretty much just waiting for the end at that point anyways), that is equal to 700,800 hours.

so it will take 162 million lifetimes before we catch a whiff of the universes biggest fart.

to put that into perspective, in the past 5,000 years of recorded history, that equates to roughly 62 80-year lifetimes.

so breath deep, the cool crisp air of earth, before it's spoiled by the biggest fart imaginable.