Homepage blog: March 23: the apocalypse that never was
Homepage blog: March 23: the apocalypse that never was
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There’s precious little time for infinite thoughts with no boundaries like these in chaotic modern life, so should we really be wasting time marking a day which was generally as unremarkable as any other – only distinguished from the blur of weeks, months and years by something that didn’t happen?
Well, this is, I suppose an OK attitude if life is really busy, keeping you stressed and you really don’t care much about asteroids.
Fact is, most people don’t care one way or the other, or they have the attitude of “well, it didn’t happen to me, it can’t happen to me, or I’ll wait until it happens to me to worry about it”.
I guess it really is too much to think about. Until you consider the fact that a very large asteroid hitting this planet will be nothing to sneeze about. We’re probably about due for a “big one” anyway, so why bother worrying?
I’ll tell you why. Somewhere out there is a great big piece of space debris, and it has our name on it, random or not it’s going to come careening into our vicinity soon enough and POW, right out of science fiction, this world will be plunged into a dangerous death spiral because the various species on this planet will begin to die off.
No, honestly, we DO need to worry about to the extent that we all are writing Congress and the President and whomever else will listen to get OUR government awake and paying attention.
No, really, we DO need to worry about it to get a greater understand among the population of what the exact probabilities of death and destruction can come from such a rock.
Yes, REALLY we do. But, we don’t have to devote each and every minute of every day “worrying” about 2029 right now. But really, we should be concerned, but perhaps not enough to remember “the last time it missed us”.
