And what happens to long term bonds...... -----Original Message----- From: Ed Weick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Keith Hudson Subject: Re: Asteroid N17
With the dot.com and telecom melt downs, this is all we need! Perhaps some literate dinosaur left a record of how to deal with this. Ed > My tea ceremony came to a spluttering halt this morning as the lenitivic > voice of the BBC News reader announced the possible arrival of asteroid > 2002 N17 on 1 February 2019. > > I shan't be around by then I guess, but some younger FWers might be > involved. The mile-wide lump of rock travelling at about 70,000 miles per > hour is able to take out a continent or give everybody a big splash. It's > been watched for some weeks past and although its trajectory is not yet > precisely known it has now become the most threatening object in the short > history of asteroid detection. > > If further observations confirm the likelihood of an impact then it might > not be a bad thing at all. It might just possibly concentrate the minds of > our politicians into thinking constructively about the planet as a whole. > > KH > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > -------------- > > Keith Hudson,6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England > Tel:01225 312622/444881; Fax:01225 447727; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ________________________________________________________________________
