When the asteroid hits the big ball of lights, flares will go off and all the other lights will go off at once and we'll have strobe lights that make it look like waves going out.

A number of years ago, I was driving by here and thought, 'This street goes across. This street makes a T. The courthouse sits on a square like Times Square. Put a ball at the top and we'll have New Year's Eve.' So that's how it got started.

Folks have been here from all over the world making test drills and checking on the actual creator itself to verify it was an asteroid that hit here.

I guarantee you it will not be anyone from the outside.

I know that Jim Gibbons as governor of Nevada will represent all the best of this state. I really believe that Jim - as a war hero, as a legislator, as a member of Congress - has spent his whole life preparing for this effort.

Sometimes a king in the [30-pound range] will win a tournament somewhere else. Over there you can catch a 40-45 pound fish and it won't even get you on the board.