Comet May Have Missed Earth By a Few hundred Kilometers 265
First time accepted submitter afree87 writes "A re-analysis of historical observations at a Mexican observatory suggests Earth narrowly avoided an extinction event just over a hundred years ago. On August 12th and 13th 1883, an astronomer at a small observatory in Zacatecas in Mexico made an extraordinary observation, some 450 objects, each surrounded by a kind of mist, passing across the face of the Sun. This month, Hector Manterola at the National Autonomous University of Mexico suggests these were fragments of a comet. 'If they had collided with Earth we would have had 3275 Tunguska events in two days, probably an extinction event.'"
May have missed ? (Score:4, Funny)
May have missed ? I'm fairly certain it definitely missed.
A little too early (Score:4, Funny)
Re:May have missed ? (Score:5, Funny)
Often it's helpful to read the entire sentence, rather than just the first half. You should be OK on these sentences though, as I've structured them to accommodate your particular reading disability.
Re:May have missed ? (Score:5, Funny)
May have missed ? I'm fairly certain it definitely missed.
Nope - it didn't miss. I was the only survivor as I happened to be exploring some very deep natural caverns at the time.
You are all just figments of my imagination.
If you want to be taken seriously (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Buckshot: (Score:4, Funny)
He probably works in base 5 himself, and rounded it off to the nice round number 101100 (5), and converted it to decimals for the publication.
Re:May have missed ? (Score:5, Funny)
And Slashdot is the best your imagination can come up with. Come on man.
Re:*shiver* (Score:4, Funny)
Let's go burn down the observatory so this will never happen again!
Re:May have missed ? (Score:5, Funny)
I think you may have missed the humorous nature of his post. No, on second thoughts, you definitely missed it.
That's because, in space, no one can hear you go "whoosh".