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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So just a 1 in 20 chance for an undetected asteroid with 1km diameter that could cause global civilization collapse.

This is fine. /s

On a serious note, it will probably take an actual asteroid hitting a city for governments to invest more into asteroid detection and defense

[–] TheObserver 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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 πŸ˜’