Posted on 01/04/2010 4:35:14 PM PST by presidio9
Little Sally, Little Billy, rest your heads. Do not worry about that terrible asteroid Apophis that NASA says has a 1-in-250,000 chance of obliterating planet Earth in 2036, when you will be turning 32.
The asteroid will not destroy your brand new house, the one you bought with a sub-sub-prime mortgage. It won't land on your shiny electric Lexus with autodrunkensteer. It won't interrupt season 35 of "24," in which Jack Bauer tortures the thugs who swapped his Viagra for Metamucil.
Why? Because Anatoly Perminov of Russia's space agency is reporting for duty. His agency is considering sending a spacecraft to knock the asteroid off its path.
It would be kind of like in "Armageddon," the sucky movie with Bruce Willis and the Aerosmith lead singer's daughter. But it'd be even more sucky if Apophis crashed into your iTeleponder, right, Little Sally, Little Billy? Especially if it happens right when we've licked global warming.
The Russians are coming. And maybe they will even send a monkey to pilot the rocket. So rest your sweet little heads.
That would have been my first guess. my second would have been Jupiter. Since it didn’t look like either, I asked. :-)
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