Scared? Of This? Really?

63 Million Tonnes of Kitty Litter, Dust Kitties, and Dead Caterpillars

Upcoming story: Mt. Palomine Institute of Mysteries unmanned aleatory space exploration craft--Lookarounder III--lands on surface of big scary asteroid, Picklejarre 357a, that could someday be on a collision course with Erde, and finds it to be no more threatening than the agglutinated contents of a vacuum cleaner bag. On its last pass the killer asteroid came within 75 feet of the surface of Erde, knocking down a ham radio antennae and frightening livestock. The discovery that asteroids are just loose conglomerations of interstellar dustpan gleanings is proof positive Creatrix did not unintelligently undesign dinosaurs in a dreadful galactic baseball game disaster that supposedly cost her team the Series and simultaneously destroyed 95% of life on Erde and all interest in baseball for 65 million years. [Turns out it was just a random accident, even Wotan was asleep at the switch that day... literally] The larger bits embedded within the matrix are undigested kernels of corn. Please make it go away, sez government, regardless--it's disgusting. [Soon, a story on the Serendipity missions and the planet-ambling Meanderer series of Institute space exporation craft--Meanderer I and II are currently on the surface of Thor just aimlessly driving around, smoking (the low atmospheric pressure causes mild lubricant evaporation) and listening to telemetry broadcasts from Erde on their radios, hoping to run into some life, some action, something, man, somewhere on that downbeat nowheresville orb]