Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "What Will Happen If An Asteroid Hits Earth? | Breakthrough" video.

  1. One of my favorite Far Side cartoons was the one where the punch line read; "What really killed the dinosaurs" with an accompanying picture of dinosaurs lighting up cigarettes. That said, I know NASA has stated that most of the big rocks in the asteroid belt have been cataloged and none are on a trajectory to impact Earth. They redid the math for Apophis and said we are mostly safe from that in the short run. Fair enough, but what about long-term comets from the Oort Cloud? A beast like Hale-Bopp could be heading our way and we wouldn't know it until the tail lit up. Hale-Bopp was 18 miles across. You're not running from that. And there is no technology available for dealing with a rock the size of the dino killer. At that speed all you can do is wait and get ready for a really bad day. I was a kid during the duck-and-cover days of the Cold War and that experience taught me that sometimes sh*t happens and all the kings horses won't amount to a hill of beans. I got chastised for telling my fifth grade teacher I would find a catcher's mitt and make like Johnny Bench at ground zero if the Russians lobbed a nuke at us. My mindset hasn't changed. Even if you are one of the 0.05% to survive a blast like that, what kind of world are you going to be left with? Th other 0.0499999999% of the people left are gonna be a desperate bunch. Nah, you can keep that. So let me know where this thing is gonna hit. I'll be waiting.
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