Ah, someone with a brain in their head. Agreed.

Oh gee, he quoted from a British Government website. Isn't that special?

He can't help it. He's a product of the U.S. educational system. He thinks Mexico is in South America. And anyhow, South Americans who do decide to come to North America tend to choose Canada over the Land of the Stupid.

Being on the equator, and with a healthy supply of mountains, coasts, and jungles, you can pretty much have whatever climate you like year round. The guy could have done worse.

You mean the stuff that Ed Lansdale was so good at? Lansdale's the guy photographed in Dealey Plaza back in November of 1963. Of course, this goes back to gunboat diplomacy and ultimately to the aftermath of the Spanish-American War when the thugs in Washington figured out that they could go around the world pretending to be establishing democracy while they stole the resources of every country in sight.

You don't have to blow it up. You just have to divert it enough to prevent it from hitting the earth. At the time of the original study, the plan involved Saturn rockets, which we no longer have. Now, I guess we'd have to rely on the Falcon Heavy.

I'd be satisfied with a Google "improvement" that allowed it to search on what you typed in without having to use quotation marks. It would also be nice if it didn't ask whether you meant Hancock when you typed in Hanock.

"One may have the knowledge of a Lavoisier, and still not be able to analyze, not be able even to see, except conformably with the hypnoses, or the conventional reactions against hypnoses, of one's era."

This position was finally torpedoed (or rather, bombarded) once and for all on April 26, 1803, when 3000 meteorites fell at L'Aigle in Normandy, during the daytime, many of which were seen to fall from the sky by the good citizens of the town. Once again, a new intellectual age in the development of humanity had begun with the appearance, this time of the remnants, of the Comet of Typhon. By this time the core of the comet had settled into an orbit just over 21 years that brought it dangerously close to the earth every five orbits. The origin of these 3000 fragments, before it finally broke apart, may have been seen to cross the sun on October 10, 1802, by Fritsche, as reported by Charles Fort in The Book of the Damned. Later observations of what he thought to be the same object were used by Leverrier to calculate the orbit of what he thought to be a planet-sized object between Mercury and the sun. He called it Vulcan, and calculated that the planet would again cross the sun on March 22, 1877. On that date, the object failed to appear, perhaps so deteriorated that it was no longer visible from the earth.

105 years after the event of 1803, on June the 30th of 1908, a much more dangerous piece of this object would fall in Siberia near the Stony Tunguska River. A few hours later and it would have taken out St. Petersburg. This core, shorn of its cometary disguise, may have been seen on the 28th. Charles Fort reports, in New Lands,

"A great luminous object, or a meteor, that was seen at the time of the eclipse of June 28, 1908—'as if to make the date of the eclipse more memorable,' says W. F. Denning (Observatory, 31-288)."

-- http://neros.lordbalto.com/ChapterNine.htm

No, engineers talk in acronyms. Marketing droids use terms like "inflection point."

http://neros.lordbalto.com/ChapterTwelve.htm It really isn't rocket science.

God, I hope not.

The reality is always worse than the theory. Thanks for the quote. I may have to read that.

That's what they used to say about fungus/yeast. Unfortunately, it gives folks like me migrines and I would suspect this frankencrap will have its own health risks, but it will keep the doctors busy, so I'm sure they're cremin' in their jeans about it. Deliver me from this kind of "progress."

The Martian Defense Force strikes again.

Yeah, I used to watch those. The masks always seemed the most hokey part of the show. No mask is that realistic.