"The timescale where we need to leave earth is probably many zeroes from now" ...he said on the day before the huge and previously undetected asteroid struck,

"The timescale where we need to leave earth is probably many zeroes from now" ...he said on the day before the huge and previously undetected asteroid struck, ending all life on the planet. People had tried to set up detection networks to find asteroids like this one in advance, but they had been told "the timescale for an asteroid strike is probably many zeroes from now, we have more important priorities" and their few million bucks in funding didn't get approved. Meanwhile, the factories continued pumping out billion-dollar nuclear submarines that could only be used to make the planet less habitable.