Meteorites Are The Universe's Way Of Telling Us We Need More Than One Planet To Live On

The newspapers are full, of course, of the news of the metorite that came down over Chelyabinsk yesterday. That plus the news of the vastly larger 1012 DA 14 which has just gone sailing past (in a near miss that in astonomical terms is hardly a miss at all) leads to the hope that Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources get going with their idea of mining asteroids pretty sharpish. For the meteorite and the asteroid (which we can think of as a would be meteorite that didn’t make it) are stark reminders of the ultimate fate that awaits us as a species if we don’t get going.
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