[AnotherUnixGeek]

Come 2022, scientists will attempt to save all of humanity from an asteroid. Calm down, it's just a trial run. The joint US-European AIDA—that's Asteroid Deflection and Assessment—mission intends to crash a probe into a 525-foot-wide asteroid known as Didymoon to see if the impact will change its orbital path.

About time. Asteroid and comet impacts are a far more credible threat to human life on this planet than the slow changes which global warming would bring.

[Ophiucus]

As soon as I saw the headline, I went to post “about time.”