Carl Sagan on comet & asteroid impacts, & the Canterbury Monks

August 4, 2008


Video: YouTube

Asteroids have in the past, been somewhere between ‘The Blue Screen of death’ and the ‘Reset button’ for earlier epochs such as the dinosaurs and mammals.

Now if we’d spent the money wasted on the war in Iraq on exploring space, we’d probably not have all our eggs in one basket… the question is, who’s going to supersede us if the unthinkable happens?



Written by Beam · Filed Under Environment, People 

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