[MeekOneGOP]

Amazing!

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[Joe Brower]

Too bad. If we'd been luckier, it would have impacted Mecca.

[Aeronaut]

If I'm going to a restaurant and miss it by 75,000 miles I'm going to get danged hungry.

[peteram]

Oh! Was THAT that gust of wind I felt the other day?

[mewzilla]

=80

[agenda_express]

Good thing we spent all of that tax money on the Hubble. (/sarcasm)

[VoiceOfBruck]

Sounds like God changed His mind at the last minute.

[The Mayor]

I heard a guy talking on the radio about this last night.
He said they ignore rocks this small cause there is nothing they can do about it anyway, they have no way to stop them and the chances of it hitting a land mass are small.

I wouldn't want to be under it when it exploded in the atmosphere..

[Dog Gone]

Asteroids are the drunk drivers of the solar system.

[Mad Dawgg]

We are very lucky that the Vogons have such a bad aim...

At least they didn't read any poetry

[Bernard Marx]

A lot of the responses on this thread demonstrate what I call the Harry Truman syndrome: "Hell, that volcano'll never erupt and I ain't movin'." Bye Harry.

There's now no doubt that several great extinctions of life on earth in the past were caused by asteroid hits. Granted, they don't happen often but when they do -- like eruptions of Vesuvius or other sleeping giants -- they can be devastating.

In the end we're all dead anyway but, for the living I don't think it's paranoid to invest some of our intellect and treasure into figuring out 1) how to demolish/deflect cosmic intruders once detected, then 2) how to detect them.

[capt. norm]

Tom Daschle claims that the information about the asteroid was actually known to President Bush a few weeks before but he withheld it for political purposes.

If you're asking yourself what possible politcal purpose could there be in that, consider this: If voters knew the world was going to end in two weeks, they might just go ahead and vote for a liberal on the "it doesn't make any difference now" theory.

[PoppingSmoke]

"75,000 miles"

Someone ain't kidding when they say close. What now? Is Congress going to fund a $37 Billion pork included Counter-Asteroid Program? Create a new department of Outer-Space Defense Agency? or demand from the UN that they rename themselves the United Federation of Planets? Demand hearings on why NASA failed to detect this attempted attack on Earth? Leak intelligence information that we had prior space signals on this asteriod? Revisit the national missile defense program allowing for missiles to be also launched into space? Stand on the Capitol stairs and hum the the sound track to Star Trek?

[MississippiMan]

Another fine example of our government being on top of things. Oooops.

MM

[adx]

Largest Asteroid in Years Misses Earth - "We never saw it coming"

Shame we don't have anything up there to rope these big boys into a safer, much more productive orbit (say out beyond GSO).

[Search4Truth]

Damn Archnids. Sounds like a job for the Mobile Infantry and Reco's Roughnecks.

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