NY Times blog The Lede brought a startling fact to my attention: a giant asteroid just missed crashing into Earth recently, where it would have created a collision force that would rival a small nuclear weapon.
Does this worry anyone else?
No?
Well I guess you all loved that craptastic classic Armageddon, whose resolution to the problem of asteroids hurtling toward our own hunk of rock in the sky was to nuke the shit out of it?
Or are you convinced that the techniques employed in Deep Impact were more realistic?
Yeah that would totally work...as long as there are peeps watching the skies.
But in reality, I personally would rather not know that there is a giant rock headed for Earth, destined to cause death and destruction in proportions that would make Hollywood cry. I guess I'm stuck on that whole ignorance is bliss thing...
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