Thursday, April 07, 2011

Wanna feel *this* small and meaningless?

Watch this simulation of what would happen if a 300 mile-wide asteroid hit the earth. Apparently, it happened before, as recently as 4 billion years ago.

If 10 minutes is too much for you, the first 2 or 3 minutes will give you plenty to ponder.

Yeesh.



"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea was no more." Revelation 21