Originally posted by SquirrelNutz

Why is everyone so quick to dismiss that EARTH could be affected by outside forces just as all other stellar entities, especially considering that the evidence is there that we've been impacted BEFORE! Moreover, why is it so hard to come to grips with the fact that NOW may be one of those times? Jesus... Wake UP!

No one in their right mind, and for sure not any serious/hobby astronomer or *any* scientist would deny that.
I have no idea how you come up with the idea.

But it's a HUGE difference between "not denying" that something like that might happen and PANICKING as is the case in certain forums.

Planets and moons get bombarded with cosmic debris....a simple look to the moon will tell you this is the case. Earth was bombarded with debris/comets also...heck we even saw a comet (shoemaker/levi) breaking up and impacting Jupiter - LIVE on TV.

But seeing the age of the Earth (billions of years) - and the remote chance of such an impact...is like worrying about going out and whether a plane falls on my head.

While the "danger" is there, and thinking about long-term prevention of comet/asteroid impacts does indeed make sense, it's simply no URGENT issue as some conspiracy people want to make you believe.

HECK - yes it *could* be that a good sized asteroid COULD impact Earth and cause a catastrophe "soon" - but it could as well be that such an event might happen in several 1000 years..maybe in 100.000 years or maybe a million years? So what?

Besides...even taking the remote chance of such an event happening into account..i personally don't think that eg. an impact of a several hundreds meter object would be an "extinction event"...it would be a MAJOR CATASTROPHE, no question...but it would not cause a mass instinction and i think we Humans would survive it.

(Not as with the dinosaurs where a following climate change made them extinct...but we humans would adapt..even *if* such an impact would probably cause a LOT of casualities at first,depending where it would hit..floods etc..etc... but it would simply not hit and literally destroy Earth into pieces.)

Totally agree with you OP. Problem is also that people believe that it could happen, but just not to them.

That day would be just a normal day for me, humans try to '"fit" things to make it make sense... maybe the mayans got bored of making calender....they probably thought "we are not going to live this long, i think ill end the calender for now and start up again in few years".. then the disease got them.

Not all religion dooming and glooming, In Hinduism, according to Kali Yuga,, earth still has about 429,000 years left before destruction!

I think imo, earth already started deteriorating, i say it started around early 1900s, probably will last another 200-300 years before natures engulfs and restarts.