Ah, so HERE's the October surprise! According to Pravda anyway

[soothsayer]

Giant comet may collide with Earth late October

According to the Russian astronomer Nikolai Fedorovsky, a giant comet flying at top speed is bound for Earth. Should the comet stay on the collision course, it may hit the planet in late October. The impact will cause devastating tsunamis, earthquakes and avalanches, says Fedorovsky. He saw the killer comet in a telescope two weeks ago. He managed to calculate the comet’s trajectory. We got in touch with Nikolai Fedorovsky:

“Just a few people are aware of the fact that comets of various sizes fly past Earth at a very close distance on a regular basis,” says Fedorovsky. “Those comets usually pass by unnoticed. The above circumstance is not a guarantee against disaster by any means. The Tunguska meteorite landed in the wilderness of Siberia. What if the behemoth had plunged into the center of Europe or somewhere in the ocean?

“I’m not trying to scare anybody, I just want to warn the public,” sums up Fedorovsky. “We should pay attention to this suspicious celestial body. We could obtain more accurate calculations if other astronomers join forces. We could also photograph it if we’re in luck. We will probably partake in one of the greatest events in the history of humankind,” adds he.

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Much more here http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/84913-0/

[NNN0LHI]

1. Pravda has been reading my bird flu posts, the bastards n/t

[POAS]

2. Wow, an extinction event and I'll be here to see it!

What luck!

[Hav]

3. Woohoo!

We are the lucky generation to witness Armageddon live! How cool is that? That's what we can tell our children and grandchildren..oh right, wait a minute...

[qnr]

10. And I was so expecting it to be a DIY project n/t

[C_U_L8R]

4. The Flying Spaghetti Monster is PISSED

here comes a meatball.

INCOMING !!!!

[whistle]

5. Last paragraph sums it up nicely....

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As for the “Fedorovsky asteroid,” all the above scientists believe the report is either a mistake or exaggeration. “We’ll surely see more reports like that in the future. But we shouldn’t fly into a panic each time we see another doomsday being announced in the press. Let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope that the thing will fail to hit our planet,” says Igor Gerasimov.

[soothsayer]

6. I hope it lands on Rove.

[whistle]

8. And Dennis Hastert, in fact a 180 kilometer asteroid would be just

...about the right size for the two of them

[populistdriven]

7. omg its as big as the earth!!!

[whistle]

9. Ahaaa, that is a artist rendering in perspective, I think it is about

...180 kilometers in diameter or about the distance between Orlando and St Petersburg FL

[orwell]

11. A comet with a diameter of 180 km...

...impacting the earth would end all life as we know it.

Other than that it is small time...

[johnfunk]

12. This is HUGH11111