This IS Ceti Alpha 5!

Warning: Do not read this to your little children as a bed time story!

I don’t think I’ll bother going to work now that it’s been explained how Earth may collide with one of our sister planets and explode, just like in the Star Trek movie, Wrath of Khan. You remember, they were looking for a planet which could be used for the Genesis Project, a planet devoid of life; “…not even a microbe or the deal’s off.”

There they were on the surface of a wasteland, wind blown sand and scorching heat following a small blip on their hand held tri-corder device when they found the Botany Bay storage units. “Botany Bay! Botany Bay! We must get out of here!”

Too late as they are confronted by the survivors of the abandoned Botany Bay settlement, led by Khan. “I never forget a face; you, I know, Checkov. You, I don’t know.” Khan goes on to explain how Kirk had marooned them on this hell hole of a planet.

“Ad-mear-al Kirk left you on Ceti Alpha 5, a paradise, after you tried to take over his ship,” Checkov reminds Khan of the old television series episode in which Khan and his crew of long living super humans floating through space had been revived by Kirk only to attempt a hostile take over of the ship.

“This IS Ceti Alpha 5!” Khan relates how after Ceti Alpha 6 exploded and tore away the atmosphere leaving the planet barren of nearly all life that Kirk never bothered to check up on them. This is where the squeamish need to cover your ears, just before Khan has those nasty little bugs dropped into the ear.

Anyway, according to scientists who’ve be studying computer generated models of our solar system there’s a 1% chance of similar catastrophic planetary collision in Earth’s future, probably the same reasoned and solid scientific minds who are running around all worried about global warming. No need to get ready for work since it’s all going to be a waste of effort anyway.