I'm sure that with enough tax dollars, we could probably prevent this giant asteroid from destroying the Earth. That is, if we can repeal the Bush tax give-aways in time. Otherwise, we might as well give up recycling and saving the whales because we're all dead in 11 years any way. (Smoke 'em if you got 'em, kids.)

The good news is that if the Dark Sky morons are successful, we should have a good view of it.