*Happy International Asteroid Day! ~ Do You Believe A Big Astrroid Hit Will Happen In Your Lifetime?

The increased study of asteroids to uncover their orbits in detail are a prudent strategy to avoid a potential catastrophe. Notably, when an asteroid was collided into intentionally, for study, the results were a little different from what some scientists expected.

@morphyms1817 said in #11:

Notably, when an asteroid was collided into intentionally, for study, the results were a little different from what some scientists expected.

Different? How?

@Black-Swan-22 said in #1:

Do You Believe A Big Astrroid Hit Will Happen In Your Lifetime?

No

@SaNyob said in #12:

Different? How?

I have more to share, stay tuned.

@CSKA_Moscou said in #9:

I only hope for that! an asteroid not too big, but enough that there will be debris falling so I can run and look for it with a metal detector
something like that

rather an erratic black hole - you don't see them come

*** DAS ASTEROID ***
******* JETZT *******
***** AM KIOSK *****

Will a planet killing asteroid hit in my lifetime?

Probably not and if it does it will most certainly occur at the very end of my lifetime -- so not worried.

@ed01106 said in #18:

Will a planet killing asteroid hit in my lifetime?

Probably not and if it does it will most certainly occur at the very end of my lifetime -- so not worried.

If a planet killing asteroid hit it will most certainly occur at the very end of your lifetime...

This could perhaps serve to start a topic in its own right -- but does humanity (as it sometimes seems) increasingly dwell on unlikely end-of-the-world scenarios?

And (here's the implied, follow-on question): does an increasing percentage of us find some sad solace in a notion that at least we might ALL be unhappy and fearful soon?

Humanity really isn't likely to end in our lifetime, or even before or within the lifetimes of our great-great-great-grandchildren. Yet, increasingly, writing that begins to feel weirdly like a heresy of some sort.

Let's hope that happier times are coming soon. Indeed, THAT'S much more likely, based upon the apparent cycles of history.

I'm not betting upon the planet killing asteroid. But I'm sure we'll see many more internet stories with headlines suggesting that one might be on the way!!!!!! (Click bait being apparently somehow profitable).