The end being nigh was to be announced by email


Last week American scientists were poised to tell the entire planet a giant asteroid was approaching fast which had the potential to wipe out all life on this precious sphere. And they only realised in the nick of time that they were wrong.

It took a Russian scientist to realise that the threat was no threat at all, but the European space probe Rosetta.

Everybody makes mistakes from time to time but this one would have been disastrous—it would have eclipsed every other mistake America, and indeed humanity as a whole, has ever made. Iraq would have looked like a tea party conducted with cordiality and civility. Global warming would have been merely the appetiser to the main course of absolute annihilation for which we would have had only ourselves to blame.

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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

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