What are the risks, by the numbers? How many asteroids hit Earth and how many can we expect to zip past us?

  • TheObserver@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Unfortunately true. The only way to get humans to collectively want to deal with space is a threat from space. Once life’s are threatened all of a sudden it’s a fast track to build defenses and bases to protect humanity. Honestly if it means allowing some humans to die to allow humanity to live longer than so be it 🤷. After all the end goal is to not go extinct.

    • Sigmatics
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      1 year ago

      Yeah. Unfortunately then it will be too late.

      It’s not like we don’t know from evidence that there have been multiple mass extinctions due to asteroids

    • artisanrox@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Once life’s are threatened all of a sudden it’s a fast track to build defenses and bases to protect humanity.

      me: not so sure about this anymore 😒