Steam pokes fun at asteroid, humanity

If you logged into Steam in the last few days, you likely saw this ad, in which they poke a little fun at the asteroid ’2005 YU55,’ which passed inside the orbit of the moon on November 8th.

Regardless of its potential threat to humanity, the folks at Steam decided it would be a good chance to have a 33%-off sale on the recently released iD game, Rage, with the coupon code ‘”2005 YU55″ LOL.’ Now, it may just be me, but rubbing the little asteroid’s face in the fact that it just missed us by ‘laughing out loud’ seems to smack a bit of hubris. But hey, if you can’t laugh at potentially hazardous space objects wiping out large groups of people, what can you laugh at?

There’s always next time.