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You've also still got some issues with over-capitalisation, but they don't prevent comprehension, so well done for taking the advice on board.

Frogge I read your review :).

The problem with a country killer size is where it hits, and if it airbursts or impacts. Get enough particulate matter into the atmosphere and we're headed for a impact winter and loss of viable crops and livestock, famine and war and other riders of the apocalypse.

I'll be nice to the flower girls.

edit: Red, I've got a spare room, you can haul your arse to Oz.

double edit: Yes Sated I know, that's why I said joking aside. :)

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NASA spend so much having to release statements about things not coming to hit us (and most of this is due to internet rumours spreading too quickly) that they make a point of stating that they'd be quick to announce something if they ever were worried about an impact capable of causing real damage.

Double bluff, methinks.

Joking aside, I'm not sure I'd want them to, I mean I'm all for being told about things I can fight or where I can make a difference, but a 10km wide hunk of iron rich space rock hurtling towards this fragile little biosphere at 25 km a second isn't something I can reasonable take on.

Then again there are some fairly nice bottles of wine I've been saving for a special occasion so maybe I would want to know so I could drink them as the meteors fall.

author=Sated
I have nothing to say about this religious stuff other than that religion doesn't deserve our respect.

Some people say an asteroid is gonna come and ruin our shit...

NASA have a pretty good line on knowing what the fuck is going on in space. If anything dangerous were coming towards us, we would know about it waaaaaaaaaaaaay in advance. Unless NASA hold some really big, very obvious news conferences and tell us that something is gonna come and ruin our shit, nothing is coming to ruin our shit. Y'know, unless a meteor is magically formed in the sky by a silver-haired psychopath!

Do you think they'd tell us? I mean if they did detect an ELE in the form of an asteroid hurtling towards us on a collision course with no way to deflect it, because this isn't Armageddon or even Deep Impact (which was better, Morgan Freeman 'nuff said), and we have no way to stop something like that. The panic that would spread if the world really was coming to an end in a bang would be universal.
People would stop going to work, the rule of law would be forgotten, people would buy, scavenge or steal anything they think would save them, heading to high ground or deep caves depending on their particular delusion of safety. Though those with enough money might be able to get a seat on one of the few space worthy vehicles we've still got around and watch the Earth die from orbit, and then starve or suffocate. You'd also get a lot of tearful family/friend reconciliation which would be nice and some Kum ba yah singing on mountains and beaches but by and large I think we'd just collectively decide there are no consequences and it's about time to tell our boss what we really think of them.

I doubt very much such a secret could be kept given the number of telescopes pointing at the sky on a nightly basis and the number of amateur astronomers out there wanting to get their name on a piece of space rock, but I think they'd try.

This is of course discounting the silver haired psychopath.

No this is not very good to maintenance of books!

Good LP though :).