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To: 21twelve
Can see the “kill shot” coming and gives us 18 minutes (or whatever) of warning.

I hope I'm within arm's reach of my wife when it happens.

Cheers!

40 posted on 02/21/2009 5:13:31 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

“I hope I’m within arm’s reach of my wife when it happens.”

Me too. In our graves - hundreds of years from now! Although ask me that again in 3 years, it might beat what we will be dealing with then!

And we may have more time than the 8 minutes (reading the article again, the sun is 8 light minutes away. There was an old Twilight Zone with this story - but it was set in New York at night. The other side of the earth was getting fried, but NY was still okay for now! Merideth Burgess (I think) was the main character. He figured out what was happening, and after years of building up courage to say hi to some gal (a librarian??) - realizing he only had 12 hours left. She said yes, they went out, etc.

Great story to make one think!


41 posted on 02/21/2009 6:04:12 PM PST by 21twelve
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