It’s not news (the original story broke in 2004), but a recent Russian foundation came out with a warning that really bad things could happen when Apophis, an asteroid, comes near Earth in 2029. (Buy your store of non-hybrid seeds now!) Their theory is that Apophis will go through a weird gravitational field when it’s close to the Earth, tweaking its path just enough to come back and kill us all 7 years later in 2036. I was scared until I read that NASA has assured us that the chances of this happening are 1 in 250,000, odds which are good enough for me. However, I’ve got to believe that people who play the lottery are terrified right now since this makes death by asteroid thousands of times more likely than what they’re counting on for their retirement.
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