In this new video from
Big Think, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says he's almost embarrassed for our species that it takes a warning shot across our bow before legislators take seriously the warning they've been getting from astronomers that its a matter of when not if Earth will get smacked by an asteroid.
"But it took an actual meteor over Russia exploding with 25 times the power of the atom bomb in Hiroshima to convince people that maybe we should start doing something about it."
Comment: We understand his frustration! SOTT.net has been warning people about this for years. The latest research indicates that it's not the multi-million-year larger space rocks that we need to be concerned about, but the swarms of smaller objects that wreak havoc on human civilizations far more often than people realise...
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The pols and legislators will never get it, even with a shot across the bow.
They will sweep the incident away with their Risk Management, patting themselves on the back that it will be 1,000's of years or more before another one hits. They lack the ability to connect the dots, unless it means more money in thier treasure chests.
Therefore, I find it unreasonable to expect that pols and legsilators could grasp that current solar-system conditions are ripe for cosmic shooting gallery barrages.