In this time of troubles, it's nice to know that I can count on all of you...

[conuly]

to be massively pedantic for no reason.

No sarcasm, it really lightened my mood to have so many of you show up just to inform me that there is no meaningful chance of a killer asteroid anytime in the forseeable future.

Comments

[gatheringrivers]

So you're not getting a "Giant Meteor 2025" t-shirt? :-)

[conuly]

Apparently not.

[spiralsheep]

Does your post count as 'roid rage? ;-P

[conuly]

I'm not currently raging, so... no?

[jessie_c]

More's the pity :(

[conuly]

Still crossing my fingers for an embarassing death at a coke-fuelled orgy.

[jessie_c]

Make certain that Vance, Johnson and lEon all get invited also, or else the problem will get even more unhinged.

[conuly]

It’s an orgy! Everyone’s invited!

[siliconshaman]

Well that is unless we *do* something about it!

I mean, there's a load of rocks up there, many of which would only need a little shove, right?

[spiralsheep]

Wile E Coyote in spaaaaaace....

[jessie_c]

ACME(c) Asteriod Aimer.

(Warning: Not to be used by Coyotes)

[spiralsheep]

Lol! :D

[calimac]

At this point it would come as something of a relief.

[conuly]

That was my original point! But the pedantry cheered me up. Not because we’re doomed (or not) but just because.

[historicalmuse]

Now I've a link for you!! https://starwalk.space/en/news/should-you-worry-about-an-asteroid-hitting-earth

[conuly]

Thanks :)

[historicalmuse]

The more you know!

[pauamma]

Would it also help for me or others to be pedantic for a reason?

[conuly]

Only if you want to be pedantic. It’s no good if you’re faking it.

[pauamma]

It's more that I sometimes have to than want to strictly speaking, and I made my mind some years ago that when I have to, I might as well enjoy it.

[shadowkat]

LOL!!! Although I'm not sure informing you there's no chance of an asteroid hitting the earth is pedantic - while what I'm doing right now most definitely is.

[conuly]

Turnabout is fair play - I know I’ve spent enough time pedanting you.

[shadowkat]

ROFL!!!

Although after reading some of those comments, I realize some folks were being kind of pendantic.

And the Brits really need to stop comparing the US to Nazi Germany. They were closer to it with Boris Johnson, and they have a King.

[thewayne]

Pity, that.

;-)

There's a couple of good disaster novels, though, that I've read in the last few years. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, about the destruction of the moon causing the wiping (mostly) of the Earth's biosphere. And the Lady Astronaut series by Mary Robinette Kowall about a small asteroid smacking into the ocean off the East Coast wiping out DC and lots of other places, ultimately resulting in a new ice age.

[conuly]

Oh, I can't read or watch any sort of disaster fiction that hits the East Coast, not if NYC is destroyed. I just can not.

[thewayne]

I can't remember what happened to NYC in the Lady Astronaut books, but if it takes out DC then NYC would probably not fare to well.  The result was the start of a massive ice age event, forcing the start of the rush to the moon and Mars in the 1950s.  Seveneves was an entirely different sort of catastrophe, more of a biome extinction event.  But I can completely understand your viewpoint.

[archersangel]

is there a reason to be massively pedantic?

this is either a genuine question, or a rhetorical one, whichever is more amusing.

[conuly]

Is there a reason not to be massively pedantic?

[archersangel]

probably not.