Mysterious Space Blast
I was looking at
this article about a mysterious "space blast" that happened back in like 1908 or something..(Yeah, I could go back and check, but I'm being lazy right now.) See, what happened was that this space blast, (that they thought might have been some sort of asteroid), came in that day and set fire to these woods out in the middle of nowhere. Reportedly, it created a thin layer of dust in the atmosphere that resulted in enough light to read at night for about two days. Well, I'm not explaining it that great..but you can go
there and read it yourself.
It just sort of reminded me of the last
Enterprise episode, "Terra Nova." The storyline was that there is this mysterious, supposedly lost colony of Earth's..that they're just now going to try and find out what happened to it.
Spoiler for anyone who hasn't seen it yet..(it aired last Wednesday in the US)
So, they find out that this asteroid hit the colony..or just north of it or something. This created what the Terra Novans called the "poison rains." So they have to go live down in these caves underground..yada, yada, yada. I just think that's sort of creepy. The entire episode was creepy, but then again...that's why I like Enterprise. Space isn't so mapped out yet, and everything is an adventure. That's exciting for me.
Back to what I was saying. Just think what would have happened if the same sorts of chemicals that were in the asteroid that hit Terra Nova in that episode, had hit Earth back in the early 1900's? This one didn't even hurt anyone probably, because the land was sparcely populated. In the episode, the area of high radiation only lasted over part of the northern hemisphere. It was safe down south. Just think how close we all are to destruction..every day. If we're still around, then we must be here for a reason, you think? If not that..then we are all incredibly lucky.
Just went looking
Apparently..our chances of being with with a really bad asteroid are very small.. 1 in 20,000 chance.
This article explains it better.
posted by Val at 10/30/2001 04:29:00 PM
