something down in the morning traffic and the existence of putin. during the commute, a fire ball, a meteor fell to earth, damaging about 3,000 buildings and injuring more than a thousand people, but most of the injuries were from shattered glass, and then later, an asteroid about half the size of a football field came within at least 17,000 miles from the earth. in scientist's terms, that is not very far. there are weather satellites farther away from that. scientists say if that had hit the earth, it would have been a thousand times more powerful than the nuclear bomb that hit hiroshima. last time an asteroid hit the earth was in 1908, when once again, russia was a target. it wiped out 100 square miles. the best way to put this, i am