There was no point lying to Wilson about 2012 DA14 — he has access to Google, after all — so I told him the truth: it's a 500m asteroid that's going to pass quite close to Earth.
'How close?' he asked.
'Not very' I replied, hoping this would satisfy him.
'We are all going to die!' he wailed. 'You are so naïve, New Dad! Do you really think they'd TELL us that it's going to hit the Earth and kill everyone? Of course they won't, there'd be pandemonium!'
'Look, I promise you it's going to miss us!' I said.
'Well it doesn't look very much like that here' he replied, pointing to the tv. 'It looks like it's heading straight for us!'
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