The Christian Science Monitor says a giant asteroid is hurtling through space with a decent chance of hitting dear ol’ Mother Earth in February 2040. Add 28 years to your current age — that’s how old you will be when you die if this scientific projection holds true.
Happy birthday.
The Doors were particularly ominous when they sang “Five to one, baby, one in five / No one here gets out alive” in the late 1960s.
Our odds are much better — only a 1 in 625 chance that the asteroid wipes out civilization as we know it. Woo hoo!
And here’s the wild, kick-ass version of the song from the infamous 1969 Miami concert prior to Jim Morrison’s arrest on stage:
Christian Science Monitor? Christian Science is an oxymoron.