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Watch the Asteroid That Nearly Crashed to Earth As It Whizzes By
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Forget Tunguska, when did io9 become so alarmist? :P
Phil says it was close (see here: [blogs.discovermagazine.com]) but still a "clean miss".
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Ah -that would be Phil Plait who latest book is called DEATH FROM THE SKIES! ;)
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That's mean it missed us by about 5 Earths.
That is fucking close.
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It appears the launch has been pushed back to sometime in 2010.
The decline of the Sugar Maple may doom us all to a fiery doomful doom, by fire.
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That would be a good comic stri, eh?
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You also have the superior national anthem hands down. and now...
ASTROMOOSE AWAAAAY!!!
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Refer to Ockham's Razor: The simplest explanation tends to be the right one. Therefore, the Tunguska Blast was caused by an unauthorized test of Nikola Tesla's Death Ray.
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