Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!

I'm sure Al Gore will find a way to save us.

Actually we will simply put Al Gore in its path and the asteroid will either bounce off his stomach or die of boredom.

If this isn't an incentive to develop a serious presence in space, I don't know what is.

Your servant,

Lord Karth

True to word-drunk type, this avatar of "if asteroid be inevitable, take it crack up and enjoy" took much delight in this, from the omni-legged Wikiped discourse on the origins of "The Sky Is Falling":

Characters

As it is common in fables, all the characters in this tale are animals. They all have rhyming names.

* Chicken Licken
* Henny Penny
* Cocky Locky
* Ducky Lucky
* Goosey Loosey or Gander Pander
* Turkey Lurkey
* Holey Moley
* Foxy Loxy

oooohhhh, yeeeeeaaaahhhh...
um...
so what does this say about the Reality of God?
quite the Creator, eh?
I mean...
it's not enough that the Designer made such a flawed product that we only live 70 or so years...
(and no, ID is unreliable... the flaws show that we were designed by evolution and not by some intentional intelligence...)
now...
we see that not only is the life of each person so limited...
but also the span of human existence is so limited...
yes, humanity will go extinct sooner or later...
could be sooner than most expect, eh?
but hey, have a nice day!

extinction faith hope love joy peace to all...
and...
for all the coming death and destruction...
Forgive God...

People are showing their age with Al Gore jokes. Kids who were not yet in school are now in college since the day when he was a player on the political stage. The real joke here should be (and how am I the first to see it?) that yes, there are so many apocalyptic scenarios regarding this Earth's dangerous trajectories, but: If we survive George W. Bush, all things are possible. This is of course foresight wisdom predicated upon the notion (as yet unproved) that surviving these last 8 years will have in fact been provable long term. Stay tuned. (The War of the World’s with your host, Orson Welles).

The Shorter War of the Worlds, or, Mercury Had Nothing on *This* Theater:

We know now that in the early years of the twentieth century, this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man's, yet as mortal as his own...

We take you now to Grover's Mill, New Jersey:

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Carl Phillips - Professor Pierson and I made the eleven miles from Princeton in ten minutes...what I can see of the object itself doesn't look very much like a meteorite...

Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make...one hundred and twenty known survivors...

"Citizens of the nation...with a nation united, courageous, and dedicated to the preservation of human supremacy on this earth".

2x2L calling CQ, come in please...isn't there *anyone* on the air?...

...you are listening to a dramatisation...

...the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain, after all man's defenses had failed, by the humblest thing that God in his wisdom has put upon this earth...

...and if your doorbell rings and no one's there, that was no Martian - it's Halloween.

This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.