“Who knows whether, when a comet shall approach this globe to destroy it, as it often has been and…”
“Who knows whether, when a comet shall approach this globe to destroy it, as it often has been and will be destroyed, men will not tear rocks from their foundations by means of steam, and hurl mountains, as the giants are said to have done, against the falling mass? – and then we shall have traditions of Titans again, and of wars with Heaven.”
– Lord Byron, apparent father of planetary defense, in Medwin’s Conversations of Lord Byron, 1824 (via invite-me-to-your-memories)
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