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In this scenarios it wouldn't destroy the world. A 50m asteroid hitting a minor city in the western world (with time to evacuate for anyone with a functioning b
by isostatic 7y ago
In this scenarios it wouldn't destroy the world. A 50m asteroid hitting a minor city in the western world (with time to evacuate for anyone with a functioning braincell) is probably the best thing that could happen as far as space defence goes.
- magduf 7y agoWe already had something a bit like this, several years ago when a small asteroid exploded over Chelybinsk, Russia. 1000 people were injured. Has humanity sat up and decided to take this threat seriously? Nope. Most likely, this was a test from some aliens to see if we're smart enough to avoid a much larger, extinction-level asteroid headed our way, and to try to get us to prepare ourselves better without violating the Prime Directive too badly. We failed.