Sundiver 10/20/2010

Making any long range plans? The idea of a comet crashing into the Sun make you think twice about it? Check this out then:

I think people often don’t realize just how big the Sun is. That comet would end all life on Earth as we know it. It won’t even make the Sun flinch.

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