What next? A group of mad scientists, or so I choose to call them, are debating whether or not we can successfully redirect an asteroid or a comet into the path of Earth, coming so close it speeds up Earth’s revolutions. This will effectively “nudge” Earth farther away from the sun offering to cool the planet.

If that’s not bizarre enough, they also think they can redirect the same comet or asteroid past one of our bigger planets, say Saturn or Jupiter and sling shot it back to Earth, passing ever so closely again and slowing Earth’s rotation back to normal.

Ahhhhh, yeah! (Faster than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.)

Of course there’s a few things to consider. One, if they are off the very slightest, goodbye Yellow Brick Road. If that’s not enough to consider, think about what could happen once Earth has moved out of the ghettos of Al Gore’s land of mythical man-made global warming and left our moon stranded. I hope you realize the moon is important to Earth for something other than making love at the overlook on a moonlit night or crooning about the romantic beams of moonlight dancing across the sky…….like a big pizza pie. Ah, yes! That’s amore!

I for one certainly enjoy reading and learning about what science is debating and considering but hold on just for a second if you can. What bothers me about this is the reasoning they are invoking as a need to “nudge” the Earth – global warming.

We haven’t even made any definitive conclusions about whether man has any influence on climate, and any natural changes in climate, we are only guessing at this point as to what, when, where, why and for whom. Please don’t do an Obama on this thing and rush it through because we are all going to die and if we don’t do “something” it will be the end of Earth.

Great science bordering on fiction but isn’t that what makes science so exciting and interesting?

Tom Remington

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