Meteor to strike Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in one million years!!

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Gotta love my hometown rag, the Milwaukee Urinal. On today's front page, in the same spot where recent Y2K articles have run, was a story (sorry, not posted on-line) which was very alarmist in tone. It talked about how the world was going to end. A meteor is going to collide with Earth, and we are powerless to stop it! It will likely be similar to the one that caused all the dinosaurs to be extinct, only bigger! Etc.

When? One million years from now!!

By my calculations, Y2K will strike the Earth in less than one million minutes.

Surrealism at its finest...

-- Steve Hartsman (hartsman@ticon.net), October 14, 1998

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Steve, uh... have you ever considered that this report was "cautiously optomistic'?

This could very well be another pollyanna, happy face report!

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-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), October 14, 1998.


Well, I had to write to the editors again:

I find it highly offensive that you chose to run a story on the front page of yesterday's paper about a meteor due to strike Earth in one million years. The alarmist tone reeked of tabloid journalism. Y2K (which occupied the same bottom left corner of the same front page this very week) can be thought of as millions of asteroids striking Earth simultaneously. Many of these asteroids will be small and will inflict little or no damage. Others will be much larger and will create very large tidal waves which will sweep out entire communities, both inland and coastal. What is important is the cumulative effect, and the simultaneous nature of the strikes. There will most likely be devastating and widespread damage. There are less than one million minutes before January 1, 2000. I suggest you consider returning your front page to important, relevant information. The clock is ticking.

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I am such a pest.

-- Steve Hartsman (hartsman@ticon.net), October 14, 1998.


Steve... I dunno... you may be more a poet than a pest. Excellent letter!

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-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), October 14, 1998.


I had a letter published in the Milwaukee Journal a few weeks back. If it is going to be published, you will get a phone call verifying that you sent the letter. I asked why they chose my letter and was told that it was short and to the point.

-- Dave (dave22@concentric.net), October 14, 1998.

Steve...that was good! If that doesn't get the attention of the Journal, I will be surprised! How can they ignore IT?!? Blondie

-- Blondie Marie (Blondie@future.net), October 14, 1998.


Hey, Steve! Will you be able to go to this "conference?"

http://www.jsonline.com/news/Wauk/981014waukeshamayorseeksinp.asp

-- Gayla Dunbar (privacy@please.com), October 14, 1998.


Gayla:

I'd love to attend, but it appears to be invitation-only. Closed to the public, of which I am one.

Hearings of this kind should, of course, be open to the public, but I'm afraid that's a different thread.

-- Steve Hartsman (hartsman@ticon.net), October 14, 1998.


Hi, when the computers go down, we won't even see the meteor coming much less be able to do something about it!! I think this scenario is very possible!!

-- Jimmy Tanner (JTan82564@aol.com), October 20, 1998.

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