Day 276-Disaster, Narrowly Averted?

Ouch!

Sigh. 


So, here we are, looking up to the right for this gigantic asteroid that is going to narrowly miss our home planet, and in from the left comes some bad-ass meteorite that shatters windows and injures hundreds as it 'splodes over the Urals in Russia. 

Dang. Too bad we didn't see that one coming. 

But there are others we do see coming, like this BadBoy 2012 DA14 who will be whizzing by soon today. Fortunately, according to the geniuses who tell us this stuff, 2012 DA14 won't 'splode over the sky and hurt us, but will simply buzz us, like a giant, pesky wasp. 

We saw him coming, and he's not pointed directly at us. Some are, however, and this super smart astronaut, Dr. Edward Lu, has created an organization that is raising major moolah to build a super-big space-floating telescope/warning system that will let us know when some errant rock wants to make us extinct. 

I totally kick ass.

Dr. Lu and his genius buddies want to see the asteroids, then divert them with small spacecraft that knock the asteroids for a loop and point them toward Mars or something. Sorry, Martians!

So, they see it coming, and they stop the disaster the best they can. And we are supremely grateful, since we aren't all smart like Dr. Lu. Thank you, Dr. Lu!!!

Consider your health in the same way. You know that as you age, things are more difficult, and you assume your health will begin to fail you. You sit on your kiester all day and only play some pick-up basketball twice a month with some other guys or you take a yoga class here and there and buy lots of cool workout clothes. You get Type 2 diabetes, maybe have some prostate or pelvic floor problems, your cholesterol climbs and you start making out with Lipitor on a regular basis. Or you take Ibuprofen, see lots of doctors and wonder what the hell?

But what if you, like Dr. Lu, could avert that impending disaster? What if, by performing one of our most basic and natural biological functions (no, not farting!) you could avert 90 % of the typical problems associated with aging in our culture? 

And you don't have to raise billions of dollars or have a PhD to do it?

That's right! You could walk 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week. That's all. Of course, it'd be better if you did more, WAY better, but even that 5 days a week change would act like Bruce Willis in Armegeddon and drill a hole into that asteroid of impending health problems and blow it all to bits. 

How'd I do it? I squinted at it, like this!

Yeah, just like that. 

So, why don't you?
Dani