I came across an article on the Associated Press wire today “Scientists Worry Over Asteroids.”
I don’t want to know this shit.
This is not the time in my life right now that I want to find out that we are about to get knocked out of the orbit of the sun.
Apparently, scientists are seeking a standardized protocol for dealing with the possibility of an asteroid or comet striking the earth in light of several recent false alarms.
Uh, I write for a bizarre news magazine. I am looking for articles 25 hours a week.
I haven’t come across one goddamn article talking about either a near miss or an impending collision. That is why you need places like 8BM.com because obviously someone at ABC news or CNN didn’t deem it important enough to place “Asteroid On Possible Collision With Earth” as their lead story.
Maybe Bush removing certain movies from the library on Air Force One was a bit more relevant to the average American than the annihilation of the species.

The goal, of the 19-page paper they are writing is to encourage discussion of how to replace the ``haphazard and unbalanced'' way the world now addresses any potential impact.

All of that brain power they have and when it comes to saving the earth we haven’t gotten any further than still hoping to either attaching a rocket engine to it to nudge it out of the way, or smashing it to pieces with an atomic bomb.
I am sorry I have seen both of those films and I think we better have a plan C, D, and E if that is the best you can come up with.
But if an attempt to destroy or deflect an NEO should fail, and an object just a half-mile in diameter struck the Earth, it would unleash an amount of energy equivalent to 10 million times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Despite the fact that there is a 99% chance that the NEO would hit smack dab in the middle of India I think something that powerful might have an effect our cable television reception all the way over here.
So far, the search effort catalog 90 percent of all near-Earth objects, or NEOs, that are 0.6 miles or larger in diameter has turned up about half of an estimated population of 1,100 NEOs. Even if a warning about a potential impact comes years or decades in advance, the feasibility and expense of such a deterrent is unknown.