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Earth Under Threat From Dark Comets

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the summon-bruce-willis dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Comets could be the most significant impact hazard to Earth, with sky surveys underestimating the number that are potentially devastating by a factor of between 10 and 100, UK astrophysicists say."

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  1. Re:Seriously? WTF? by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Though any given comet won't pass near the Earth anywhere near so often, they exist in colossal numbers, and for all we know one could come barrelling out of the dark to kill us all next month.

    Sounds like there's not really any reason to worry about it then if there's nothing we can do. Isn't that the definition of FUD?

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