The Palm Beach Post assures me today that the asteroid designated 2004 XP14 will pass by the Earth on Monday with sufficient margin that I don’t have to worry about being able to finish all the ice cream in the Freezer before we’re all blown to hell. That’s not what pleases me so much as the fact that this article gives the pertinent data in miles, feet and miles per hour.
When is the last time you saw or heard any media story use any measure of distance other than football fields? Has the dumbing down stopped? Are we to finally learn the distance to the moon (4,224,000 Football fields, give or take a few beer cans) in miles or even Kilometers? Or is this only because the people who measure things in beer cans and football fields are occupied with the World Cup leaving behind only those reporters with three digit IQ’s?
Who knows – and who knows what other idle thoughts will fill my mind while waiting for the Nextel Cup Pepsi 400 to begin at Daytona International Speedway?
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