Ben McKenzie: the Man in the Lab Coat » asteroid http://labcoatman.com.au Actor, scientician, comedian, feminist, improviser, geek, voiceover artist, gamer, presenter, nerd and ginger. Wed, 30 May 2012 09:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Russia: Defenders of the Earth http://labcoatman.com.au/2009/12/russia-defenders-of-the-earth/ http://labcoatman.com.au/2009/12/russia-defenders-of-the-earth/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:23:24 +0000 Ben http://labcoatman.com.au/?p=540 It’s true: the Russian government is going to save us all from Apophis. No, not the Egyptian demon more properly known as Apep – or the alien Goa’uld of the same name, which seems more likely given the space-based context – but the asteroid, which made headlines five years ago when it was thought likely to kill us all. Since then the probability of that has been greatly reduced by subsequent observations, though wise minds are keeping an eye on it. The Russian collegium, though, doesn’t agree with the lower probability, and are hatching a “secret plan” to save us all from the fate of the dinosaurs.

My favourite thing about the article, though, is that Dr Permiov, spokesperson for the Russian collegium (or “science-council” as he describes it, which seems delightfully steampunk) assured citizens that “there won’t be any nuclear explosions,” and then that “everything will be done according to the laws of physics.” Does he have the option of not doing things according to physics? What does the collegium know that we don’t?

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