"U.N. urged to take action on asteroid threatSAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters)—An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said on Saturday.
Astronomers are monitoring an asteroid named Apophis, which has a 1 in 45,000 chance of striking Earth on April 13, 2036."
I, for one, am gonna start drinking more.
(Excerpt from Associated Press article http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/02/19/asteroid.deflector.reut/index.html. Photo courtesy of www.thunderbolts.info.)
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April 13, 2036?
The U.N. definitely needs to take action. Damned if I'm gonna get slapped with a penalty for mailing my taxes late if that thing takes out half the eastern seaboard.
On second thought, judging from that artist's rendering, it looks like the worst an asteroid impact could do is to give Earth a nipple.
Frankly, I don't see a problem...
"1 in 45,000 chance"
ah. i can live with dem odds.
I just got the strangest craving for cotton candy. I wonder if the odds of a cotton-candy vendor suddenly walking by my office door are any better than 1 in 45,000.
I saw a REAL "Kitchen Carnival" machine at the store the other day, just like Homer had. I was so tempted to get it. I would give my teeth two months to live before the endless Cotton Candy buffets did them in.
Yeah, Homer did have a cotton-candy machine, albeit a very primitive one by our standards. His servants provided "pink ambrosia holding the texture of Zeus's own toupee" to listeners as Homer spun his magnificent tales for hours on end.*
*For a more detailed explanation, see Reese's Peloponnesus: The Role of Sweets in Hellenic Greece; Sue Krose Publishing; 2004.
Or did you mean the other Homer?
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