The NYT compares Death by Asteroid with more pedestrian forms of terror:
Thank goodness! Another killer asteroid is on the way, just in time to take our minds off the stock market and foreign affairs. Asteroids, in fact, are just about the perfect peril — a lot less scary than a close encounter with a shark and a lot more reliable than Saddam Hussein….
Meanwhile we are free to worry away at our leisure. It’s a lot more fun than fretting every time Tom Ridge or John Ashcroft warns us that terrorists are out to do us in, at a time and place unspecified. At least with asteroids, those who issue the warnings know where the terror rock is and can calculate where it is headed.
More on death from above.
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