Hyperbole? Never!
ABC’s The World Today ran a story about the asteroid that burned up over Sudan yesterday. It featured the inimitable Professor Paul Francis complaining about the Howard government cutting the funding to his astronomy hobby:
Well we’ve probably got lucky. We probably got lucky in the sense that we didn’t search and nothing hit us since.
But if in two years a city gets destroyed by a southern asteroid, then the government’s decision will look pretty stupid. But we may have got lucky.
Now, as much as I would love for my taxpaying dollars to be spent propping up this old fossil in his ivory tower in Canberra, I have a disturbing statistic to reveal.
Number of cities destroyed by asteroid (beginning of civilisation -> present): ZERO
You’ll forgive me if I try my luck a little longer, Professor Humdinger.
Tags: asteroid, funding, howard government, ivory towers, Science
October 9, 2008 4:57 pm 1 Comment
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By Wombat
, October 14, 2008 @ 6:30 pm
I’ve read this post three times, and it cracks me up on each and every occasion. Gold.