On a related note, Lucifer’s Hammer by Niven and Pournelle is a great book about the aftermath of large meteorite strike on Earth. Highly, highly recommended. And Pournelle is an old school conservative. Besides FreeRepublic, he’s the only guy I send money to, to support him and his web site.
“Lucifer’s Hammer” was a TERRIFIC Book!
I’ve read that book once, and I’d rather keep it to once. I was afraid that reading the book would give me nightmares that would wake me up, but thankfully I didn’t have any. Something like that is certainly a nightmare scenario.