China Is Building A System To Track Asteroids That Could Potentially Smash Into Earth
Summary
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero Li Mingtao, the chief scientist overseeing the project, said there are currently no known asteroids expected to strike Earth. Even so, he cautioned that many medium-sized objects capable of causing widespread regional destruction have yet to be discovered. China is expanding its planetary defense efforts with a new asteroid detection network aimed at spotting dangerous space rocks long before they become a threat to Earth, according to the South China Morning Post.