I spent a good chunk of today at Wordbridge, the annual writers’ conference in Lethbridge, Alberta. My main reason for coming was to launch a Shadowpaw Press title (Broken Realm by Jenna Greene, a Lethbridge …
This is Easter weekend; last weekend, I sang in the Easter concert of First Baptist Church here in Regina as a guest soloist and chorister. The whole concert is worth listening to, but if you’d …
I put a link to this in the previous post on my Aurora-eligible work for 2025, but wanted to highlight it. This was my contribution to the Shapers of Worlds Volume V anthology, and it …
The Aurora Awards are Canada’s best-known science fiction and fantasy awards, voted on by fans every year. I’ve been fortunate enough to win twice, for Marseguro (DAW Books) (soon coming out in a new edition from Tuscany …
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The Shards of Excalibur audiobooks, narrated by the wonderful Elizabeth Klett, are now available again after being off the market for a short while. Best of all, while they’re once more on Audible.com and Audible.ca, you …
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Comet ‘Armageddon’ less likely than previously thought
Well, this is good news! An astronomer has calculated that there are seven times fewer comets in our solar system than previously thought, and thus the chances of us being wiped out by a collision with a “continent-busting” comet are also less than previously thought; such a thing probably only happens once every 150 million years or so.
I like this quote:
“So I don’t lose sleep over it, but you’re still more likely to be killed by a comet than win the jackpot at Lotto.”
I always appreciate a good dig at lottery-ticket buying.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2005/09/comet-armageddon-less-likely-than-previously-thought/
