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    Watch the Asteroid That Nearly Crashed to Earth As It Whizzes By
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    03/04/09

    In reply to Watch the Asteroid That Nearly Crashed to Earth As It Whizzes By
    It's so cute.
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    Image of hughie522 hughie522
    03/04/09

    In reply to Watch the Asteroid That Nearly Crashed to Earth As It Whizzes By
    And in other news, BABIES CAN CHOKE ON BREAD!


    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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    03/04/09

    @hughie522:


    Ah -that would be Phil Plait who latest book is called DEATH FROM THE SKIES! ;)

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    03/04/09

    The diameter of the Earth is 7926.41 miles.


    That's mean it missed us by about 5 Earths.


    That is fucking close.


    ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

    us----------------it

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/04/09

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    Ummm. Not that I'm worried, but how is Canada coming along with that NEOSSat? [io9.com]
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/04/09

    @Grey_Area: Well, it's Canada so I wouldn't hold your breath unless you expect a satellite whittled out of a natural growth tree and held together by syrup to work.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    03/04/09

    @Garrison Dean: maple syrup is REALLY sticky!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/04/09

    @Garrison Dean: And put in orbit with a giant rubber band slung between the antlers of an astromoose.

    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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    03/04/09

    @Grey_Area: Astromoose. LOL
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    Image of ParryLost ParryLost
    03/04/09

    @Grey_Area:Hee. Astromoose. But I don't get where these admittedly amusing stereotypes of a technically inept Canada come from. I mean, come on, the Canadarm? That big thing the space-shuttle uses all the time, and updated versions of which are *building the space station* right now? The name "Canadarm" ain't a coincidence!
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    03/04/09

    @ParryLost: Yeah you have a point, it really is pretty groundbreaking technology what with it's two lengths of pipe, 2 hinges and a grabby hand.


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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/04/09

    @Grey_Area: Astromoose. Hee.


    That would be a good comic stri, eh?

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/04/09

    @ParryLost: Truly meant no offense. I find the conceit of a working space program made from woodsy resources far more sensible and funnier to the US's wasteful methods.

    You also have the superior national anthem hands down. and now...


    ASTROMOOSE AWAAAAY!!!

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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    03/04/09

    @Grey_Area: Oh Canada! I stand on guard for beer... er... thee!
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    03/04/09

    @Anekanta: Oh! Those are the words. Even better!
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    03/04/09

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    Pshhh. Yeah, cause Tunguska was an asteroid. WHATEVER!!! Way to continue the cover-up "scientists" or should I say "The Man". And io9 you should be ashamed of yourselves for helping them. What's next? An article about weather balloons and swamp gas? You changed.
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    03/04/09

    @Garrison Dean:Everyone knows Tunguska was a space-ship from a parallel time dimension where everything happens in reverse. It exploded several days before it arrived, while the crew was investigating the epicentre of a strange forest fire in Siberia whose cause they could not determine.
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    Image of Erinaceus Erinaceus
    03/04/09

    @ParryLost: That's crazy talk.


    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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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    03/04/09

    @Erinaceus: Well, yeah. Everybody knows that.
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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    03/04/09

    @Erinaceus: Sheesh--everyone knows it was the lost gnome civilization from the core of the Earth that shot down an invading UFO!
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    03/04/09

    @Anekanta: Those same bitches standing on my Grandma's lawn? I KNEW they were up to something!
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