Is that an Asteroid in your Atlantic? Or are you just pleased to see me?

"Tic-Tacs - They won't fill you up. And each one has the calorific value of whale blubber. But HELL! They sure do taste good! And will freshen your breath! Eat six packs today!"

But no. They were (maybe still are though I haven't seen it recently) actually marketed on television as almost like a health product! In fact I just had a look at the Tic-Tac USA site, and on the site is written - "The Incredible One and a Half Calorie Breath Mint!". The packaging on the product itself is slightly more modest (they drop the 'Incredible'), but their marketing people are still obviously impressed at how you can freshen your breath for such a low amount of calories. My point is this. If Tic-Tacs are good for you, then there is no doubt in my mind that Asteroid Impacts must also be good for you. Stands to Reason.

The second great thing about asteroid impacts is that we have one to thank for bumping off the dinosaurs and giving us lots of cool bones to study. Now, I guess you could argue that without an asteroid impact we would still have our large, scary friends on the team. However, my conjecture is that sooner or later we would only have done to them what we are doing to the last of their kind, the whale, anyway and had a good crack at killing them all. They did after all have nice skin, could probably have been squeezed for oil, and like the Icelandic Government says about whales, would most likely by now badly need to be harpooned because they were essential for scientific study. So, it turns out that the rather larger Asteroid impact of Dinosaur killing fame has actually saved us all the bother of haphazardly slaughtering them, and instead given us in their place lovely, fresh, bleached style bones to fit together like giant jigsaw puzzles. Now if that isn't both considerate AND cool, then I simply don't know what is!