No problem. We have simple 70's technology to deal with this.
No we don't. Other asteroids have been discovered, only when they had actually passed us. Like the near miss that occurred recently.
""Earth had a close call in 2002. In one of the nearest passes ever recorded, a rock the size of a football field that passed extraordinarily close to our planet on June 14 went undetected until June 17. The asteroid — speeding along at 6.2 miles per second — missed us by only 75,000 miles. That's only one-third the distance to the Moon.""
No problem. We have simple 70's technology to deal with this.
Thanks for posting that. I was trying to recall the details. I love the part about being detected AFTER it passed by.
And things have hit the earth before with dire results-end of the dino's was probably due to an impact. Of course, that one worked out okay for us!