We have about 35 generations to figure out what to do about it.
Scientists have moved closer to being able to stop a huge asteroid colliding with the Earth and potentially wiping out human life.
Researchers at the University of Tennessee have discovered that blowing the space rock up could make the collision worse by causing several devastating impacts.
Instead, small changes could be made to its surface to disrupt the forces keeping it together and cause it to break up in outer space.
They were studying asteroid 1950 DA, which has a one in 300 chance of hitting the planet on 16 March, 2880.
Although the odds seem small, it is the most likely asteroid to collide with Earth and the odds are higher than being shot dead in the US.
So we’ve got a few hundred years.
But — our politicians won’t even fix Social Security, despite the fact that it’s on course to blow up before the millennials need it. What are the odds that our idjits in charge can focus on a threat that’s more than 800 years away?
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