I was all set to rant and rave here concerning the watery state of tomato juice today.

Even the name brands of tomato juice seem watery and not as tasty as I remember.

The tomato juice I recall was thick, tart and tasty but this stuff you buy today is ...

Well, between the time I got the idea to rant about tomato juice in this column and got around to writing it, I happened to come upon NASA's "Asteroid Watch" website.

Do you know about this threat? Do you know what "Near-Earth" asteroids are?

That stuff really makes you stop and think.

Here's the bottom line according to "Asteroid Watch." A really large asteroid would take something like a series of nuclear explosions to destroy.

As if that's not problematic enough, "Asteroid Watch" says we would have to see the big rock coming for a few decades ahead of time before we would have the ability to destroy it.

Blasting a giant space rock is a little more involved that bringing down a pheasant with a .12 gauge.

A small asteroid? We would have to have between a few years' and a decade's warning, then perhaps we could build a robotic spacecraft and send it up to smash into the asteroid.

And perhaps that would knock the asteroid off course enough to save the earth.

Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

When you think about it, asteroids aren't the only threat to our extinction.

You know how the experts are always saying the next pandemic is just around the corner?

Well, here comes the Ebola threat.

And what about solar flares? That solar flare in 2012 was a dangerous one and could have been a threat to the planet.

And there's nuclear war ... and climate change ... and food shortage ... and overpopulation.

Life on Planet Earth is tenuous enough without worrying about insignificant things like watery tom-

Hold everything! I'm an American and I don't care if some space rock is hurtling toward us, or some solar flare is licking its way across the solar system like a dragon's tongue.

I want to get to the bottom of this watery tomato juice.

The way I figure it, the tomato juice-makers have figured out a way to water the juice down, save them money and charge me more for it at the store.

Man, what kind of world do we live in?

Bob Morgan is a retired, award-winning journalist and author.