Sounds like a good time to start up some survivalist scams and UFO mother-ship-rescue cults.

(Meanwhile, at 1600 Pennsylvania Boulevard, staffers are breathing a sigh of relief at news of a disaster that can't be blamed on the Shrub.)

Todays Astronomy Pic of the Day is very appropriate, a map of objects in the solar system. Take a look at the immense number of 'collision risk' objects that we already know about.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

What a way to go out, at ground zero, binoculars in hand, watching the burning orb in the sky creep closer and closer. Beats hitting your head on the bathroom floor...

2019? That's gonna piss off the World Wildlife Federation.

What really sucks is that February 1, 2019 (the day it's supposed to strike) is a Friday. There goes the weekend!

Ugh:

"Dr Yeomans said the world would have to get used to finding more objects like NT7 that, on discovery, look threatening, but then become harmless."

What a perfect prescription for political paralysis.

"Professor, did you or did you not say an asteroid was going to strike the Earth on February 1, 2019?"

"Well, yes Senator, but -"

"-and now you want us to throw taxpayer money at another of your chicken little schemes, is that it, professor?"

Let's hope no NEO is actually a danger for a century or two...

But then Punxsutawney Phil shouldn't see his shadow!

> Beats hitting your head on the bathroom floor...

or choking on a pretzel and banging your head on a coffee table...

A work of fiction.
Apocalypse looms as the earth mounts an immune response to the human infection, an infection that has wiped out thousands of species and left asphalt and concrete scars all over the world. Humans and their technology are pitted against the deadliest organism ever produced by the natural
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