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Hello my fellow Politiores Troglodytes. This Blog is a collection of Posts, Poems, & Short Stories that I write on a daily basis. If you find it entertaining, informative, and controversial, then I have done my job properly. Thank goodness too, because Karma has been on my case of late. I'm supposed to bring fifty people into the fold or I'll have to give back the part of Einstein's brain I inherited. No, I'm not one of the Scientists who got a piece of his brain when he died. Karma said, "Eat this knowledge. It'll make you smarter!" The bargain I made with Karma was, if I could change fifty people into Politiores Populos, I would be rewarded with my very own Lamborghini. So, that's my story and I'm sticking to it! Like what you're reading, then read on. P.S. Populo is Latin for people. Politiores is Latin for educated. Troglodytes is English for troglodytes. And Einstein's brain was stolen by Thomas Stoltz Harvey after his death in 1955 and eventually divvied up into 240 pieces. If you just read that last sentence, then you have just learned something and I'm just that much closer to fulfilling my commitment to Karma!

Friday, July 23, 2021

Say Hello To My Little Friend

Asteroid 2008 GO20 Going 18,000 MPH On 'Close Approach' With Earth 
A space rock that is potentially as big as the Washington Monument is due to pass by the Earth this weekend.
By Ed Browne for MSN.com 
"Asteroid 2008 GO20 is due to make a close approach to Earth on Sunday July 25 at about 1:50 p.m. EDT. It is being tracked by NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Scientists think the asteroid could measure up to 721 feet in diameter, though this figure is not certain. The space rock could also be as small as 218 feet in diameter. In comparison, the Washington Monument is 555 feet tall. When 2008 GO20 passes by our planet it is due to be traveling at a speed of around 18,400 miles per hour—faster than the space shuttle when it orbited the Earth.Although the asteroid is making a close approach according to CNEOS, the term "close" is relative in space.The asteroid is not going to skim past our planet or pose any danger to us this weekend. It will actually pass Earth at a distance of more than 2.8 million miles. This is over 11 times farther away from us than the moon is."
 WHAT?
That's it?
That's as close as it is going to get?
I was all excited about getting an
Asteroid Burn
too!
You know,
like a
Sun Burn.
Remember,
it's not if it is going to happen,
but when it will happen.
Someday I will get that
Asteroid Burn
I've been dreaming about.
*****
"Are you trying to tell me that an asteroid burn is when the asteroid burns up in the Earth's atmosphere? Like that would happen. I am going with my fake physics that I've learned on the always truthful internet and an asteroid burn is like a sun burn."

This is,
I Always Know What I Am Talking About
Jim Hauenstein
 
And,
 
“Never in my life had I wished so hard for a thousand-foot-wide asteroid to change its course to hit someone directly in the face. Granted, it would have wiped out the entire country and possibly caused an impact winter on Earth in the process, but the greater good of mankind was worth some modicum of sacrifice.”
- Camilla Monk -
 
That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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