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There Are No Good Ideas for Saving Us From a Killer Asteroid

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We only have a list of bad options to choose from.

A photo including a Giant Asteroid and Planet Earth
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It’s not really a question of whether a massive asteroid—one big enough to wipe out human civilization—will fall into a collision course with Earth. It’s a question of when.

NASA estimates

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