September 9, 2010 swoooosh... what wuz that?

You KNOW I think that if you don't get that the earth is doomed, you've just got your head in the sand!

They estimate 6 or so catastrophic global redo events over the span of earth history, with extinction events every 100,000 years or so. Yesterday we were buzzed by two hefty asteroids...


And BoingBoing picked this up today, in case you missed it a few weeks ago: the progress in identifying asteroids over the last 30 years (earth-orbit crossers in red). We're doomed, I tell you. Dooooooomed!