This is the story that initially had a Captain Bill Clinton referenced.

I am just spinning my wheels here...but I was reading the symbolism blog post on asteroids/comet comms and the 'metals' reference in the story made me think. Asteroids apparently refer to precious metals (funding). There was an example of a story of an asteroid crashing which was interpreted to mean removal of funding. I also looked at the delta for today (Q post 2461) and it alludes to the fact we are witnessing rather destruction of the old guard. I know this is a bit of a reach.