February 27, 2013
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World Go Boom!
There was a guy on last night’s Colbert Report who was talking about asteroids and meteors including the one that recently hit Russia. Two things occurred to me; one in all the years I have been blogging here I don’t think I’ve ever blogged about asteroids or meteors and two, holy shit how is it that we have never been hit by a rather significant flying space object of some sorts. Oh sure, the rumor is that is how the dinosaurs got whacked was an asteroid hit the earth and killed them all off. Seems pretty logical and realistic. And if it did happen, how did it not totally destroy the earth and make it virtually unlivable?
And furthermore, how is it that another one hasn’t hit yet and destroyed all or part of human civilization? Look by all means I’m no space or universe expert so I really have no idea how much stuff is up there racing around. And I certainly don’t know the odds of this sort of thing happening. All I know is that the nights when I’ve been middle of of nowhere and looked up at the night sky there are a whole shitload of stars and things out there. It seems pretty damn impossible NOT to get hit by something major at least every 5,000 years or so.
So is it possible that we might be due for something major to it us? And I don’t mean like in the next year but I mean within like the next 1,000 years. I’m sure I might come off as being just a little bit paranoid here but if a tiny meteor could hit Russia than certainly a larger one could hit a bigger part of the world and do far more damage.
Ahhhh fuck it, we are all doomed! DOOMED I TELLS YA!!!!
Comments (2)
I thought the asteroid that hit earth during the dinosaurs did cause the earth to be uninhabitable… like a big smog cloud for decades. Or the Ice Age? I dunno, history of the earth is fascinating but I don’t think we learned much about it in school. Damn catholics.
@PennyLumpkins - I think you might be right about that. I do know that you are certainly right when you say that the history of the earth is fascinating