Comments on: The House wants to save us from asteroid impacts

By: Onercactemn

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By: Luc Pronovost

Luc Pronovost — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:58:33 +0000

Why a governement that is preoccupied to spend billions to kill humanity, would spend a f..king dime to save it…

By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM

Torbjörn Larsson, OM — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:48:01 +0000

Seems my previous comment didn’t make the transition.

@ Ettienne:

rendezvousing” is absolutely horrible to someone who has French as his first language.

Understandable. You wouldn’t want to know how we mangle French either.

But at least ménage à trois is a French contribution that is carefully preserved the world over.

By: Shane Killian

Shane Killian — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:22:08 +0000

Re the Pinto, yes, it was all a myth, unfortunately the scare was very real. Someone got it into his head that it would explode when rear-ended. Two million such Pintos were on the road, and their accident statistics showed no explosions and no increased risk of fire from rear-end collisions when compared to other cars on the road. Unfortunately, this was only done years later, so the damage had already been done and the expense of the recall long since lost.

The bit that was read out in court was taken out of context. They were saying that the risks were so minimal that they didn’t have to worry about it. What they meant was that it wasn’t any more dangerous than making the car any other way, but it was made out to sound like they were covering up this hideous danger with their car. They weren’t.

This is what scares get you. This is what a lack of skepticism gets you. And the sad thing is, 20 years after the Pinto was shown to be every bit as safe as any other car made at the time, people are STILL trotting it out as this horrible death machine.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:25:32 +0000

#shane – Not sure about how prevalent it is in reality, but that was one of the points made in Fight Club.

By: Al

Al — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:15:54 +0000

@ Shane:

That was the infamous Ford Pinto: unfortunately for Ford, one of the litigants pursuing compensation got hold of the bean-counter’s letter setting out the calculation and showed it to the jury.

Suffice to say the amount awarded upset the calculations a bit…

By: Todd W.

Todd W. — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:36:32 +0000

I don’t see what all the concern is. I mean, the world’s going to end in 2012, right? So, we don’t need to worry about some little bit o’ rock that would otherwise do us serious harm.