MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has taken
out $200 million in insurance
policies to cover possible damages
after the Mir space station is dumped
in the South Pacific this month, a
space official was quoted as saying
Sunday.
Yes, indeed, space fungus, space junk hurtling at 500,000 miles per hour--all aiming directly for Melbourne. My colleagues have lent me a hard hat. Something about things from the sky landing on me has always been a kind of palpable fear--perhaps because I'm tall and I'm always cracking my skull on things, perhaps because I have some generalized anxiety issues and this is how they are manifesting themselves (and I wouldn't be surprised really). Back in the '70s, I did worry myself a bit about space junk (i.e., Skylab), but who wouldn't be worried now with the threat of rogue comets and killer asteroids, not to mention bumbling Russians. Plus, my 9th grade English teacher was killed aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. All of this indicates to me that space isn't the place.
OK, maybe it WAS that alien abduction years ago...
Posted by at March 12, 2001 05:57 PM