Description Food for Thought. ELEs or extinction level event: Asteroids. Don't you worry. According to Nasa we are "safe" from any asteroid hitting the earth for the next 100 years.

Technology has changed, and with it, the ways scientists search for asteroids, or should I say potentially hazardous asteroids. With high-power computers, AI, and simulations scientists are able to pin point asteroid's position according to the earth's movements through space. There is a really cool website which allows you to see asteroid's position in "real time."

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/#/watch/

Around 11,000 asteroids have been found since 2020. While 20,000 asteroids were found between 2000-2019. Most are smaller than automobiles, which will break up in the atmosphere and pose no threat. Others are quite large, as much as 587 miles, which is almost the same distance from Houston, TX to Birmingham, AL as the crow flies. These are world killers. Not even the earth's mantle will survive.

It is estimated, that if an asteroid as big as a football field hits New York city, it will destroy it and the earthquake it will produce will be in the 7.+ in the Richter scale. It will be felt 1000 miles away.

Now, in Sept 2022, asteroid 2022 SF289, which is about 600 feet wide, passed by the earth about 7 million miles away. In comparison, the earth's and mars distance at their closest point is 47 million miles. Oh I forgot. Asteroid 2022 SF289 passed by the earth completely unnoticed by any agency, instrument, telescope, and only when it passed was it detected. Thanks Nasa!

Yeah. Nasa is sure nothing will hit the earth in the next 100 years from those asteroids they already noticed and categorized, they don't have a clue about the one that is heading straight for the Earth unnoticed and with one mission, destroy it.

"It happened once, it will happen again." - Morgan Freeman, Deep Impact