I love anything to do with space. But it cracks me up how we think we have everything figured out only to be embarassed again. The media reports that the meteor that blew up over Russia today has nothing to do with the 150 foot diameter asteroid that's about to pass within 17,000+ miles of earth today. Just a coincidence. Really? Is it so hard to admit that while you were watching for a goose to fly by, you missed the bee that was traveling with it?
That would be like someone in a Chicago suburb reporting a tire of an airliner crashing through their roof, and then in a completely unrelated story, "emergency vehicles were called out on the runway at Chicago's O'hare airport as a jetliner was forced to land witout one of it's landing gear."
Me thinks someone doesn't want to suffer the embarassment of admitting they didn't see it coming.
Reply With Quote