NASA head: "Expect a major asteroid strike in your lifetime"

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NASA head: Expect a major asteroid strike in your lifetime

"These events are not rare; they happen," Bridenstine said, noting that one model shows we can expect an event of the same magnitude as Chelyabinsk about every 60 years.

In the 20th century there were three such impacts, including the famous Tunguska event of 1908 and another reported in Brazil in 1930.

Bridenstine emphasized that NASA is working toward a goal of being able to detect and track 90 percent of nearby asteroids that are 140 meters or larger. "An impact by a space rock that large would do catastrophic damage, perhaps enough to wipe out an entire state or small country."
 

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NASA has been saying this for years, I remember being a kid and seeing news reports like this scared as hell...

Guess it’s time for the new batch of kids to be scared :comeon:


I know... These mfers swear they got the inside track on whats gonna happen next..

Just like christians was predicting christs return, science geeks waiting for some astronomical event..
 

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He don’t know shyt.
Anybody can say that and sound like it could happen


They said one was supposed to split the earth in half like 5-10 years ago
 

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Its possible but its also as possible it won't happen.


More than likely this is a push by NASA to pressure the government to invest more in a prevention system which they have been pushing for at least for a couple of decades. Because honestly, if there is a major meteor that does head towards earth, at the moment outside of sending a bunch of Nuclear missiles at it that MAY help if not make it worse, the earth is SOL on this issue. That is if they even know its coming.
 
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