The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis.
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Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility - about 1 in 45,000 - that an 850-foot-long asteroid called Apophis could strike Earth with catastrophic consequences on April 13, 2036.
This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.
When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.
We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.
It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me.
We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States.
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything.