Earth is overdue for an ‘extinction level’ asteroid strike and we’re not prepared at all

We’re sorry to spoil your weekend, but
Earth is overdue a massive asteroid strike
and ‘there’s not a hell of a lot we can do
about it


The jolly outlook has come from a Nasa
scientist, who warned that humans don’t
have a defence for an ‘extinction level
event’.
Dr Joseph Nuth
explained that such
disasters tend to take
place about 50 to 60
million years apart,
according to The
Guardian.
And it’s a bit of a
concern because the
dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite
66 million years ago.
Dr Nuth said: ‘The biggest problem,
basically, is there’s not a hell of a lot we
can do about it at the moment.

‘The extinction-level events, things like
dinosaur killers, they’re 50 to 60 million
years apart, essentially.
‘You could say, of course, we’re due, but
it’s a random course at that point.’
Thankfully, humongous, species-
eradicating space debris is extremely rare.
But we had ‘close encounters’ in 1996 and
2014 – in the latter case, the comet was
only discovered 22 months before, which
is not enough time to launch a deflection
mission.
It’s not all doom and gloom though,
because we have the technology to deflect
an Earth-bound meteor in an Armageddon
scenario.
Scientist Dr Cathy Plesko said this could
be fone via a nuclear warhead or a ‘kinetic
impactor, which is basically a giant
cannonball’.