Meteors: God’s Way Of Reminding You That Buildings Insurance Ain’t Everything
If you’ve used Google today, you’ll have seen that it features a picture (a so-called Google Doodle) of a shower of meteors streaking across the night sky and … gulp! – heading straight for a defenceless house.
This is a reference to the Perseid meteor shower, coming to a night-time sky near you this evening - it should peak in the early hours (0100 GMT) of Wednesday 13 August, according to the Beeb.
But keep calm: this is not an oh-my-God-we’re-all-going-to-die-unless-Billy-Bob-Thornton-detonates-a-nuke-on-the-damn-thing kinda moment.
The meteor shower is made up of teenie tiny bits of full size earth-destroying meteor – it’s mere space dust burning up in our atmosphere, my friends, and definitely not apocalypse now – or even apocalypse very early tomorrow morning.
Which is just as well. Because if it was something bigger, it’s open to question whether your insurance company would shell out for you to rebuild your house.
I’ll grant you, insurance may seem beside the point what with life on Earth coming to an end, and all. But under-writers are nothing if not cautious – hence the fine print in some buildings insurance policies about Acts of God.
God in this case comes in the form of fire, flood, hurricane, earthquake, tidal waves – basically, anything outside of human control.
But it could also mean your neighbour’s tree falling through your roof in a storm. So check the fine print before you sign up: God may do large scale acts of random violence but the Devil is usually to be found in the insurance policy detail!
While we’re on the subject – here’s Bill Bailey riffing philosophically on the subject:


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