Monty by Jim Meddick for August 09, 2013

If one does hit, let’s hope Washington D.C. is ground zero.

Near-Earth Orbit object or raisin? That is the question. Can a cybot wet its pants (if it had pants)?

I didn’t know machines could get scared.

EB found there was no currant threat to Earth

Tattooed…..So we have no raisin to be afraid??

Calm down, no need to be raisin people’s fears.

Presume nothing, robot. That raisin might be from outer space!

1×10^8 megatons would be 2 million Tsar Bombas. That number just doesn’t seem right.

It is estimated that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was 1 × 10 to the 13th (100 trillion) tons of TNT, which resulted in extinction of about 80% of the species on Earth at that time. So EB is talking about one that would be 10 times worse. Not likely anything more than bacteria would survive.

Hey, that’s a grape discovery….

EB is prune to overreacting.

It’s 10^8 Megatons vs. 10^13 Tons. Mega = 10^6. 10^8 Megatons = 10^(6+8=14) Tons.