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NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Achievement unlocked: discovering the Great Filter.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

If an asteroid were to hit the Earth large enough to cause human extinction, it would save us the embarrassment of killing ourselves from poisoning the climate or microplastic pollution.

I'm pretty sure we navigated nuclear holocaust, but we haven't fully ruled it out either.