At some point it won’t be a joke and we’re not ready.
Ready to do what?
“At some point it won’t be a joke and we’re not ready.”
Yep and the scoffers will be the loudest ones whining why the government did not do something.
“At some point it won’t be a joke and we’re not ready.”
You are making a good point.
But I read that NASA is working on something that they can shoot at an asteroid that explodes as it hits it and at least it would make it change its trajectory.
But of course there are a lot of ifs associated. Will they see it early enough, are the explosives really strong enough to make a major change in its trajectory, and so on.
But at least they are working on it and we hope asteroids will not come and hit us anyway.
Sadly true. One scientist said it would take months or weeks, not hours or a day, to intercept and interfere with such a hit. Such as bump it off course. We don't even have the serious beginnings of a force to react.
The big brains are "studying" and "learning from" the near misses. They haven't even mapped and tracked many objects so far. Each year they add to the database. Many are a total surprise to the "experts."
Worse. One documentary said the consensus is for the mathematical chances of a very large object hitting the earth within 20 years are effectively 100%.
Take a xanax.
I think I’ll still keep showing up for work just in case THE BIG ONE doesn’t hit :)