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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 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