Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Big Rock Gives Earth a Close Call

An asteroid the size of the one that struck Siberia 100 years ago (and exploded with the force of 1,000 nukes) came within 50,000 miles of the planet yesterday. While that may sound far off, it's a near miss in astronomical terms...being only twice the distance from the surface as our satellites.

Which leads me to the question...if an asteroid was about to hit the Earth, who would you call:

Robert Duvall (Capt. "Fish" Tanner)

or

Bruce Willis (Harry Stamper)?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

can there be a third option? I don't think I would call either of those myself.

LOL

-C