>>>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9111608/Asteroid-heads-towards-Earth-with-one-in-625-chance-of-hitting-planet.html
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>>Snip:
>>"NASA has said that options include deflecting the asteroid by attaching a probe to it and using the extra gravity this would create to steer it away from Earth over the course of millions of light years."
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>>Huh?
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>>UPDATE: Just seen that Bill has spotted the same problem ;-}
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>I notice its a 1 on the Torino scale so I think Grady may have to wait a bit longer for the end of the world.
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>http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/torino_scale.html says that a 10 (thats a goodnight folks . turn out the lights on the way out) occurs once every 100000 years or more often. That seems a little frequent to me.

I stepped out of the bunker to check my email this morning and when I checked in with the UT I found the asteroid thread. Well, none of this asteroid stuff matters, because linguistic analysis indicates the war starts some time between today and March 8.

Now, here is something to remember - If voting made any real difference, the politicians would have outlawed it long ago. :-)