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Originally posted by cherrylula@Nov 22 2003, 12:16 PM
Yeah but aren't we due for a big meteor to hit us before then... or depletion of the ozone layer...?
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Yep, that's the other thing we have on the horizon. But at least we have a much more aggressive effort underway now at NASA to locate and map as many near earth objects as they can.
I don't know if its better to know or not to know. Though there are a lot of suggestions on how we could deflect one headed this way, they are all untested techniques thus far.
It'd be quite surreal and fascinating to see the planet get nailed by a huge one. Have 99.99% of the population wiped out, and then see how the survivors rebuild the planet.