U.N. to Protect Us from Asteroid Strike

There is a story most of you have probably already seen; the United Nations is being urged to take charge of a program to deal with the threat of an asteroid strike on the Earth. I`d like to see what the U.N. could do about an eminent strike!

It`s not that a strike couldn`t happen; just take a look at the Moon. Every one of those craters was caused by space debris (granted, most of it happened billions of years ago, when there was a lot more debris.) On Earth we have a number of possible touchdown sites; the Yucatan, Hudson Bay, the Bay of Bengal, etc. The most popular theory for the death of the Dinosaurs is that a larger asteroid (probably ten miles in diameter or so) slammed into the Gulf of Mexico near Yucatan. This would evaporate megatons of seawater and trigger massive volcanic eruptions. The skies probably turned black and stayed that way for a long, long time. Acid from the volcanoes fell with the rains, and the planet cooled very quickly. Bye, bye Dino!

You know, an asteroid strike would likely end Global Warming; maybe it wouldn`t be such a bad thing, after all!

The U.N. has no space capability, and is incompetent at managing projects; just think of the graft in the Iraq Oil-for-Food program. Imagine entrusting them with the defense of the planet! One penny out of every dollar would go to actually protecting us; the rest would be syphoned off by every U.N. leech.

I`m sure they would send a strongly worded protest, however! Perhaps even file a formal complaint with the World Court!

Maybe we can ship the whole rotten organization into space.