Asteroids

Date: April 9, 2009
Time: 10:29PM
Place: Queens. NY

I listened attentively to my classmates in tonight’s groups speeches and even though they all had their strengths and weaknesses this one relating to asteroids caught my attention, here I want to indulge a bit and say what I think and know about this topic. It is very fascinating just thinking about huge rocks miles in size with burning flames floating in deep space at great speeds, really incredible. I do not know much about these but it excites my mind by just thinking about it. The grave danger about these is that sometimes they pass too close to earth and thus creating fear in the minds of those that track and study them. It can create havoc and destruction of an incomprehensive magnitude to life on earth. This is the greatest fear amongst us. There is some prediction when the next one can actually hit the planet earth and even though the odds are really small that does not make it impossible. I have no idea how man is going to prevent or combat such forces of nature; to me it looks bleak if such a catastrophe happens. I believe it was reported on one of the major networks that the next time for one of these to pass us closely would be 2014, now that is pretty close and it makes one nervous since we have not heard or seen any major development in the works that can prevent this if it actually happens. Hopefully we can avoid such an event or at least it will be one time when we would be happy to say the researchers and scientist were dead wrong.