the expected frequency of collisions of small meteorites with cars and aircraft

I found the following in today's newsletter of the Annals of Improbable Research ( www.improbable.com ).

"The Expected Frequency of Collisions of Small Meteorites with Cars and Aircraft," A. Poveda, Planetary and Space Science, vol.
47, no. 5, May 11th, 1999, pp. 715-9. <http://tinyurl.com/c8t7dg> (Thanks to Rocio Ortiz-Espitia for bringing this to our
attention.) The authors, at Ciudad Universitaria, México, report:

"The expected frequency of collisions of a car with a meteorite larger than 10 cm in diameter turns out to be one impact every 16 years."

Only every 16 years?
Phew!

Snow White, Rose Red and the beanstalk

Over at Rixosous, there is a thread that began with a post about German metal-music group Rammstein. Some of the clips featured a cocaine-snorting Snow White lording it over a bunch of jackhammer-using miners so of course it turned into comments about Rose Red and various adult and/or fractured fairy tales. See for yourself here, should you be interested.

I hope it doesn't take too long before I get that DVD of the miniseries Jack and the Beanstalk: The True Story.