The odds are small but the possibility is always there. Funny thing is that yesterday, H2 ran shows about the possibility of meteor and comet impacts all day.
How to prevent impacts is something worth study.
The odds of dying from an asteroid strike are the same as dying from a. Plane crash. A small but significant threat...
Looking at all the craters on the moon is scary. We are a bigger target.
Not sure what we can do if a really big one is on a collision course. Our space program is almost non-existent.
If there was only one legitimate function of government, it would be to prevent the end of humanity in an asterorid impact.
I hope this incident at least gets real money behind asteroid detection and mitigation planning efforts like Rusty Schweikart's B612 group, and stop people from laughing at it.