Thursday, February 10, 2011

Did I just read that?

Perhaps maybe this is the possibly best headline ever:

"Apophis asteroid will probably almost certainly not smash into Earth, say scientists"
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/0207/Apophis-asteroid-will-probably-almost-certainly-not-smash-into-Earth-say-scientists


And another source on the same story give us this:

"Still, Russian space officials apparently consider Apophis a significant threat to life on Earth despite the low odds of an impact. "People's lives are at stake. We should pay several hundred million dollars and design a system that would prevent a collision, rather than sit and wait for it to happen and kill hundreds of thousands of people," Perminov said, according to RIA Novosti." http://www.space.com/7720-russia-attack-asteroid-virtually-threat.html
Not very good at hiding their motives behind the science, are they? People's lives are at stake--GIVE ME SEVERAL HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS!--to counter the 1 in 250,000 chance of someone getting hurt.

Okay. I'll pay up!

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