Since many people like to scare themselves with fictitious tales of environmental doom, this should represent as the ultimate environmental horror story or a black swan (low probability, high impact) event: earth could be hit by a ‘doomsday’ asteroid!
Scientists have even pegged a date for Armageddon: April 13, 2036!
From the Daily Mail, (emphasis added)
Warning comes days after another asteroid shot over the Pacific just 3,400 miles above the Earth’s surface
An asteroid travelling at 23,000mph could crash into Earth on April 13, 2036 killing millions and causing global chaos, scientists claim.
In a plotline taken straight from a science-fiction film, astronomers in Russia are predicting that the 300-yard-wide Apophis could slam into the planet in 25 years' time.
But don't panic just yet, as it is extremely unlikely to happen.
So unlikely, in fact, that Nasa has given the catastrophic event odds of 250,000-to-1 that it actually takes place.
Read the rest here.
Goodbye anthropogenic global warming!
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