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“Earth is Certain to Be Struck”

During a February 2013 U.N. meeting on international strategies for protecting Earth from incoming asteroids, astronaut Chris Hadfield, a member of the Association of Space Explorers, addresses attendees from onboard the International Space Station. (06:44)

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There is no question how important this task is to protect human civilization. It is potentially the most important.

Unfortunately it suffers a human intuition group think that is born from a lack of experience with it. The recent Russian daytime event hopefully has broken the mass group think silence so that the needed focus will become available worldwide.

Posted by Tristram W Metcalfe lll on February 22,2013 | 02:22 PM

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