{"id":16531,"date":"2015-08-20T14:01:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T21:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/nasa-no-there-isnt-a-deadly-asteroid-heading-right-for-us"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:47:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:47:03","slug":"nasa-no-there-isnt-a-deadly-asteroid-heading-right-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/nasa-no-there-isnt-a-deadly-asteroid-heading-right-for-us","title":{"rendered":"NASA: No, There Isn\u2019t a Deadly Asteroid Heading Right For Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cEXCLUSIVE: Could this asteroid destroy Earth in just SIX weeks?<\/a>\u201d<\/em> According to NASA, the answer is \u201cabsolutely not, you imbeciles.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASA issued an official statement<\/a> about the conspiracy-web theory that an asteroid is heading for the Atlantic with an impact on September 23rd. \u201cThat\u2019s the rumor that has gone viral\u2013now here are the facts,\u201d the agency writes. \u201cThere is no scientific basis\u2013not one shred of evidence\u2013that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates,\u201d says the manager of NASA\u2019s Near-Earth Object office, Paul Chodas. <\/p>\n

Who could be perpetrating such rumors? The theory has actually been around for years<\/a>, but it\u2019s picked up steam over the past month or two. Unsurprisingly, a major role has been played by InfoWars, which has built a business out of circulating conspiracy theories<\/a> about the government, impending apocalypse, and the shadowy machinations of world powers. \u201cWe are simply taking a look at what has being said,\u201d says InfoWars\u2019 John Bowne in a video about the forthcoming asteroid strike<\/a>. Just a simple look! So what\u2019s being said?<\/p>\n

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\u201cEXCLUSIVE: Could this asteroid destroy Earth in just SIX weeks?\u201d According to NASA, the answer is \u201cabsolutely not, you imbeciles.\u201d NASA issued an official statement about the conspiracy-web theory that an asteroid is heading for the Atlantic with an impact on September 23rd. \u201cThat\u2019s the rumor that has gone viral\u2013now here are the facts,\u201d the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64408,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16531\/revisions\/64408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}