It was on Google news...
1) "U.N. Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space"
The sound of this made me conjure up all sorts of images and ideas... I wonder what other sorts of U.N. Committees there are?
2) "NASA says the precise effect of a 460-foot object hitting the Earth would depend on what the asteroid was made of and the angle of impact."
Way to avoid a terribly uncomfortable subject, you NASA spokesperson, you.
3) Fine, I'll be more direct in my quotations: "Astronomers are monitoring an asteroid named Apophis, which has a 1 in 45,000 chance of striking Earth on April 13, 2036."
Hmmm, 50's huh? I suppose that's a ripe age to deal with crap like that, eh? Well, so many years and the Earth has had the chance of being a target and yet it hasn't happened... At least since the dinosaurs, or since humans evolved, or you know, whatever.
Read the CNN article.
The sound of this made me conjure up all sorts of images and ideas... I wonder what other sorts of U.N. Committees there are?
2) "NASA says the precise effect of a 460-foot object hitting the Earth would depend on what the asteroid was made of and the angle of impact."
Way to avoid a terribly uncomfortable subject, you NASA spokesperson, you.
3) Fine, I'll be more direct in my quotations: "Astronomers are monitoring an asteroid named Apophis, which has a 1 in 45,000 chance of striking Earth on April 13, 2036."
Hmmm, 50's huh? I suppose that's a ripe age to deal with crap like that, eh? Well, so many years and the Earth has had the chance of being a target and yet it hasn't happened... At least since the dinosaurs, or since humans evolved, or you know, whatever.
Read the CNN article.