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Astronomers: Asteroid could hit Ron Paul in January

cnn.com — Ron Paul could be in for an asteroid hit. A newly discovered hunk of space rock has a 1 in 75 chance of slamming into Ron Paul on January 30, scientists said Thursday. "These odds are extremely unusual. We frequently work with really long odds when we track ... threatening asteroids," said Steve Chesley, an astronomer with the Near

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  • Spectre74, on 12/21/2007, -2/+3Clever......
  • SiNN4R, on 12/21/2007, -0/+13Ron Paul actually has the power to turn into a gas making him impervious.
  • BlogCruiser, on 12/22/2007, -2/+2Why are you going to do that to a good article and place it in the elections. I guess I do not always have a good sense of humor. Or are we saying the digg science section is getting neglected and there is a better chance of getting viewed here. Or that it maybe the big bang for Dr. Paul in Jan. Oh well it is not what the article is about but it was an interesting twist.
    • KamikazeeDriver, on 12/22/2007, -1/+1yeah, you need sense of humor
  • GoatRoper, on 12/22/2007, -2/+3An asteroid or a deftly piloted bus, either one will do.
  • czernel, on 12/22/2007, -1/+2Hopefully the blimp can deflect it...somehow!
  • Kwashiorkor, on 12/22/2007, -1/+1"Mike Huckabee says his faith will protect him from extraplanetary bodies, but that the odds are irrelevant, since they're derived through human reasoning.
  • Kwashiorkor, on 12/22/2007, -1/+1"Rudy Giuliani says that he will be ready to apply the full force of the US military against any terroristic asteroid threats. In the unlikely event that certain civil liberties may have to be temporarily suspended in the interests of maintaining National Order, he says that he is certain that American will be willing to make the necessary sacrifices for the good of all."
  • Kwashiorkor, on 12/22/2007, -1/+2"Mitt Romney has gone on record condemning the 'unhealthy attitudes of some extremist asteroids,' but he also stands willing to 'defend the rights of asteroids to freely express their mass and velocity.'"
  • Kwashiorkor, on 12/22/2007, -1/+2John McCain has acknowledged that asteroids have plagued him in the past, but he has not had a recurrence since undergoing a procedure to have them surgically removed in 2005.
  • mynameismunka, on 12/22/2007, -1/+1that is offically dumb
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