Saturday, February 24, 2007
Look! Up in the sky! ...
An asteroid could collide with the Earth in 2029, Sergey Smirnov, a scientist at Russia's Pulkovo Space Observatory, told a press conference in Moscow a few weeks back.
Scientists held a confab in San Francisco to discuss what the world's policy makers should do if an asteroid does indeed start on a collision course with the planet earth. Rich Galen has an excellent take on the subject:
"Given what has been going on here with Anna Nicole and Britney Spears, I don't think it is too far a stretch to believe that God has started the countdown clock running and if we don't get ourselves straightened out, that rock is going to make the dinosaur extinction look like naptime at Hillside Grade School." [Also, see previous post]
Here's more from Galen:
"If you needed any further evidence that the scientists and engineers who met in San Francisco to discuss this asteroid had been smoking some medically-necessary herb, they want the United Nations to do something about it.
"The United Nations, can not, to this very second, figure out how to get food to starving children in central Africa - which is already ON the planet Earth. Maybe I'm being too harsh, but if the UN takes this up there will be two resolutions:
"1. The asteroid will be the fault of Global Warming
"2. The asteroid will be the fault of the United States acting alone (unless Chelsea Clinton is President in 2036 in which case it will have been the fault of George W. Bush)"
Scientists held a confab in San Francisco to discuss what the world's policy makers should do if an asteroid does indeed start on a collision course with the planet earth. Rich Galen has an excellent take on the subject:
"Given what has been going on here with Anna Nicole and Britney Spears, I don't think it is too far a stretch to believe that God has started the countdown clock running and if we don't get ourselves straightened out, that rock is going to make the dinosaur extinction look like naptime at Hillside Grade School." [Also, see previous post]
Here's more from Galen:
"If you needed any further evidence that the scientists and engineers who met in San Francisco to discuss this asteroid had been smoking some medically-necessary herb, they want the United Nations to do something about it.
"The United Nations, can not, to this very second, figure out how to get food to starving children in central Africa - which is already ON the planet Earth. Maybe I'm being too harsh, but if the UN takes this up there will be two resolutions:
"1. The asteroid will be the fault of Global Warming
"2. The asteroid will be the fault of the United States acting alone (unless Chelsea Clinton is President in 2036 in which case it will have been the fault of George W. Bush)"
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Saturday, February 24, 2007 
