Friday, October 12, 2012

Overheard in the Office...

RX: "We should go out tonight and look up in the sky. 2012TC4 will come within 59,000 miles..."

Me: "It's only the size of a house; still, that's practically a glancing blow on the cosmic scale."

RX: "...or 15 kilometers."

Me: "Wait, did you say fifteen...?"

RX: "Or whatever. I don't know what that is in American Money."
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5 comments:

  1. paulinmordor7:40 PM, October 12, 2012

    Meh, it's the third one this month to pass inside the lunar orbit.

    www.spaceweather.com

    Scroll down to the bottom of the page for recent & upcoming near Earth asteroids.

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  2. Steve Skubinna11:33 PM, October 12, 2012

    Yeah, yeah, yeah. We need to know how close it comes in kallikams.

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  3. Bubblehead Les.12:01 PM, October 13, 2012

    Did we make it? All I can get from the News is the usual "Romney Sucks!"

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  4. Roberta X10:00 AM, October 14, 2012

    "They're dead, Dave. They're all dead."

    (The Computer, in Red Dwarf.)

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  5. paulinmordor10:35 AM, October 14, 2012

    Here's something fun to play with:
    http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/

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