[UCANSEE2]

Authorities have built new observatories all over the planet to watch for NEAR’s.

Authorities have built a storage facility near the North Pole to keep seed stock in.

Authorities have built an entire underground city to house the ‘calamity government’.

It’s not what they would or are doing that worries me.

It’s what the general public will do.

[dr_who_2]

The general public aren't doing what the scientists in these prestigious research centers are doing now: spending money on expensive toys.

[dr_who_2]

But yes, many people find OTT armageddon stories to be titillating. Others want to put a man on Mars within a decade, some are waiting for the successor to the bubonic plague, while still others obsess over whatever shows up in People Magazine or Reader's Digest.