Most everyone should read ‘Lucifer’s Hammer’ at some point in their adult lives. I’m not sure we, as a country, have enough good people left that would be able to continue to ‘control the lightening’.
Actually I stopped in the middle of that book because I found it too depressing. I’ve been meaning to take it up again, however. Notice how the chances went from millions to 1, then to thousands, then to hundreds, and then they stopped reporting the odds altogether. Nevertheless, the odds are still millions to 1 of a real occurance within our lifetimes.