Could End World Monday Russian scientists warned this week that life as we know it could end as early as Monday, if any one of the massive asteroids whizzing through the cosmos should happen to be making a beeline for Earth. If an object of more than 10 kilometers in diameter hits the Earth then there's not much chance of anyone surviving, according to a British task force that earlier this year published research on NEOs. Luckily, the chance of that happening is about once every hundred million years, the research said. More dangerous are smaller objects of one kilometer or more which could destroy cities, change the climate and cause huge tidal waves all over the Earth. There are roughly 1,000 such asteroids, roughly half of which have been identified as unlikely to strike the Earth.
History always seems to repeat itself.
We ignore obvious warning signs and when the catastrophe strikes we are inevitably dumbfounded. Yet, we ve known about the problems with our system for over a decade. We were too cheap to fix it. Who would have ever thought last November that we would now be in a financial crisis as the plunging values of American exchanges is setting off a worldwide meltdown. Now, the Middle East is inching closer to confrontation in which Israel may face a nuclear-armed reincarnation of the Assyria and America is going though a troubled leadership transition on top of a financial crisis.