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Remembering the Chelyabinsk Impact 10 Years Ago, and Looking to the Future
- theandrewbailey 4y ago> “A collision of a NEO with Earth is the only natural disaster we now know how humanity could completely prevent” said NASA Planetary Defense Officer Lindley Johnson. “We must keep searching for what we know is still out there, and we must continue to research and test Planetary Defense technologies and capabilities that could one day protect our planet’s inhabitants from a devastating event.” If that fails, the Anthropocene extinction event won't be what died up to this point, but a big one, perhaps on par with the one 65 million years before, and for the same reasons.