Catch A Falling Star…
Wow! Imagine that, you are sat in the waiting room to see the doctor and a freaking meteorite comes hurtling through the roof!!! Suddenly, that sore throat you came here about doesn’t seem quite so important, does it?
It may only have been the size of a tennis ball, but it was travelling at a blistering 220 miles per hour. If that cracked you on the swede then it really would hurt! Being hit by a high speed cricket ball pales into insignificance. Still, at least there would have been a doctor in the house (unless it had come into contact with his head)…
But the scariest thing about it is that it could have been a lot bigger. No, I wasn’t meaning basketball size; I was thinking more along the lines of ‘as big as a car’. Now, that would be dangerous; especially if it decided to land in the middle of a built-up area.
Scientists keep warning us there will be a big (greater in mass than a Volvo estate) asteroid coming our way in the future. I just hope that we’ll be prepared for it. Hollywood is; don’t you remember how they sent Bruce Willis and his oil-drilling buddies into space to sort it all out? Maybe the American film industry do have the right idea… Although I don’t know if I would want to be saved from destruction by Bruce; he always tends to wear a dirty vest. Mind you, it would be preferable to being rescued by Will Smith from an alien invasion.
Seriously though, I wonder what our governments do have in place to fend off a gimungous meteorite? Maybe they would just nuke it out of the sky. In which case I shall no longer have any time whatsoever for CND or any similar group!
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