For an hour, George sat in a plastic lawn chair, a beer in his hand, while Sheldon pointed a toy telescope at a patch of stars and lectured him on the Yarkovsky effect. George didn’t see an asteroid. He saw a frightened little boy who had too many numbers in his head and not enough comfort. So he did what any exhausted Texas father would do: he lied.
“The okra is the least of our concerns, Mother,” Sheldon replied without looking up. “In approximately seventy-two hours, a celestial body the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth airport will enter our atmosphere. The resulting impact will generate an explosion equivalent to 50 megatons of TNT. Lubbock will cease to exist.”
“That’s a dot, son. A dot on a page.”
“You’re a strange little boy,” she whispered.
“It’s not a theory, Dad. It’s orbital mechanics. The margin of error is plus or minus four hours.” Sheldon finally looked up, his face pale. “I suggest we start digging a bunker. Or, more efficiently, relocate to Chile. The Southern Hemisphere has a statistically lower impact probability.”
For an hour, George sat in a plastic lawn chair, a beer in his hand, while Sheldon pointed a toy telescope at a patch of stars and lectured him on the Yarkovsky effect. George didn’t see an asteroid. He saw a frightened little boy who had too many numbers in his head and not enough comfort. So he did what any exhausted Texas father would do: he lied.
“The okra is the least of our concerns, Mother,” Sheldon replied without looking up. “In approximately seventy-two hours, a celestial body the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth airport will enter our atmosphere. The resulting impact will generate an explosion equivalent to 50 megatons of TNT. Lubbock will cease to exist.” young sheldon s01e16 720p webrip
“That’s a dot, son. A dot on a page.” For an hour, George sat in a plastic
“You’re a strange little boy,” she whispered. So he did what any exhausted Texas father would do: he lied
“It’s not a theory, Dad. It’s orbital mechanics. The margin of error is plus or minus four hours.” Sheldon finally looked up, his face pale. “I suggest we start digging a bunker. Or, more efficiently, relocate to Chile. The Southern Hemisphere has a statistically lower impact probability.”