Meteors and Asteroids (We're all gonna die!)

Woo boy!  Some close calls these past couple of days.

First of all, the meteor.

a lot of people in Russia were injured by this thing, but as far as I've heard, no deaths.  Good.  I gotta say that as long as I wasn't killed or disabled or disfigured in some way I would kind of like to be injured by a meteor.  What a STORY to tell!  and it's yours for LIFE.  "I was walking down the street and this really small part of a METEOR hit me RIGHT ON TOP OF MY HEAD!  I was like WTF?  True story."

The asteroid was a much bigger concern.

Scientists and some other glasses-wearers were certain that it would not hit the Earth.  But I was still a little worried about it, like when you need a football kicker to "just" make an extra point to send a game into overtime.  You're not really NERVOUS, because they are USUALLY really accurate kicking extra points, but imagine a kicker screwing up and his chipshot extra point goes way off to the right and destroys the Earth.  Total f-word moment.

The asteroid did not pass close enough to be visible to the human eye.  Maybe some animals saw it, some of those animals that see really well.  I wish it came a little closer, but still at a safe distance.  That would be a neat excuse for a party.  Cookies and punch in the backyard with your friends, and then you SEE the asteroid go by.  Everyone cheers.  You could also make a really big "WELCOME ASTEROID!" banner, depending how weird you are.

"Asteroids" was one of the most popular Atari games, but it was flawed.  There was no reason to fly your ship around.

All you had to do was stay in the middle and rotate to shoot the asteroids.  If you tried to physically move out of the way of one you were screwed.  Unless you waited until there was just one little bit of rock left.  Then you could linger around and wait for a UFO to come, and shoot it.  (Senseless murder!)

I was pretty good at the game, so if there's ever an emergency where we DO need to send a real-life spaceship to intercept an asteroid that's going to kill all of us, I am willing to help.  Fee is negotiable.

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