I found this book to be highly enjoyable, humorous and approachable. Paul Sutter is great guide when your traversing the universe and trying to avoid dangerous astrophysical phenomena. Check this book out! ( )

Everything in and from space is dangerous. What about being kidnapped by a UFO, Sutter???

Even the universe is so fed up with us that it's trying to kill us! Now selling I survived the great asteroid near miss 2017 t-shirts, a limited edition of 27,300. Too bad moron earthlings spend so many trillions of dollars on wars and useless things, when they should be creating an earth defense system against catastrophic meteorite and comet impacts. Sutter forgot to tell us about those!

What about the ISS (International Space Station)? Did anyone tell them? Do you think they should put on their space suits and see if they need to head back to Russia? It's only a matter of time before asteroids hit earth and wipe out the human race, IF we don't have a back-up plan. It's surprising this hasn't been arranged already as the blueprint was mapped out clearly in Total Recall which was around 25 years ago. Relocate a small cache of humans to the moon or Mars. The Dodo and the dinosaur didn't do this and their now claimed to be extinct. Let's not make the same mistake (to be fair the dodo didn't get wiped out by a space rock. Their mistake was being tasty, slow moving and flightless and living on an island along what became a major trade route miles from other provisions). I always thought that the dinosaurs' failure to set up a credible space programme was possibly their biggest mistake, but you are the first person I've come across who seems to agree with me.

There are several dangers with stuff in space. One is that they will hit the earth and cause some local damage, they might hit the earth and cause global damage. They may strike satellites in orbit, turning them into thousands of small, high speed projectiles that hit other satellites in a chain reaction that would render not only the satellites non-functional, but far worse, the orbits they inhabit for their particular purpose. Once the orbits are contaminated with projectiles they become useless and no further satellites can be launched into them.

I am sure someone would say "Holy shit!" or "F*ck" or a lot of other things when they see it coming and crashing, just before they die. So the asteroid would have some sort of "name". Not that anyone would be left to tell it to anyone. No problem as long as Bruce Willis is still around and Chuck Norris can nudge comets by jam tarting at them. It would pay to keep some bottled drinking water and snacks in the garage in case. A few board games would keep the kids quiet, their ipods and pads might stop working soon after impact. A vegetable garden might not survive the heat blast. Also fill your guttering with water to help stop fire getting under the roof. Apart from that there's not much else I can suggest. I'm not going outside for a bit. Technically this is not dying in space, but dying from something coming from out space…but still…

I don't know about anyone else, but this Sutter's book really has had a deep impact on me. And all this talk of Armageddon has given me the Willis.

I've already got my towel and the five pints of bitter and my salted peanuts, but at the end of the day, I'm more worried about the Space Lizards that are now marching towards my house. They are knocking on my door. They... ( )

Great intro level book on the wonders of the Universe! He introduces difficult topics but in a way almost anyone can understand. Using humor and without bogging you down in the math. Rekindle that childlike awe when you first looked up at the night sky and wondered what you were seeing. ( )