Cosmic Car Accidents | EDWARD LU - The Diigo Meta page

• 28 Feb 12
  

  ovedkbt
  • Did you know your odds of being killed in a car accident tomorrow are the same as the Earth suffering an asteroid impact tomorrow of greater than 100 Megatons?
  • Do you wear a seatbelt? Do you have an airbag in your car? Why aren’t we taking the same precautions with
     our own planet? We should be searching the skies, finding and mapping all asteroids that could hit the Earth so
     we can deflect them as needed.
  • There are a number of ways to deflect asteroids that we are confident would work (a subject for a later post). The harder thing may actually be getting people to take the problem seriously enough to spend the relatively small amount of money needed to find and track asteroids ahead of time so we have advance notice of a threat.

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  Todd Suomela

  asteroid risk earth disaster

  • Did you know your odds of being killed in a car accident tomorrow are the same as the Earth suffering an asteroid impact tomorrow of greater than 100 Megatons? 100 Megatons is many times larger than all the bombs used in WWII. But while your death in a car accident would be a tragedy, the difference with an asteroid impact is that we are all riding in the same car!

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