The offending space rock arrived without any warning and provided no time to prepare, respond or even brace ourselves.
, considered to be the most significant meteor impacts in modern times, found we got quite lucky in both cases. Analysis suggests that the Tunguska meteoroid may not have been much bigger than the one over Chelyabinsk, but approached the surface at a much steeper angle, which led to more widespread damage.
It appears we were fortunate that the more powerful blast of the two occurred over one of the least populated areas on Earth, while the blast that did target a city of one million residents was tame by comparison.
But history is littered with fallen dominoes. The distance between German tanks rolling into Poland and humanity opening the Pandora’s Box of atomic weapons a continent away was less than a decade, and that was in an era where things moved much, much slower than today. All of these are likely coming. I would argue that the meteor version of this disaster movie is the most concerning, given the track record. Two near misses in roughly a century and that notorious direct hit that took out the dinosaurs is plenty of reason to worry.... [+]
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