Apathy Curve: Missing the Point

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Monday, February 14, 2011

Missing the Point

RunInCircles:

Last Week Asteroid "2011 CQ1" Made the Closest Near-Earth Miss on Record

Oh dear. That's not good at all, huh? We might have All Died Horribly™.

On Friday, a meter-sized asteroid called 2011 CQ1 was observed streaking only 5480 kilometres above the Earth's surface -the closest near mi--

Hold on just a second... "meter-sized"? It was three feet in diamter? Three fucking FEET?! Never mind.

In other news:

Dweeb: "Holy crap! I was just nearly shot in the head!"

Dweebette: "OMG! What happened?"

Dweeb: "Well, Dweeb Junior's cap gun went off, and I was standing really near to it!"

Dweebette: *glare*

Dweeb: "But... it was like really close to my head! And it was, like... loud... and stuff."

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Labels: hysteria

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