Wen<p>Asteroid threats</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/30/asteroid-spotted-chance-colliding-with-earth-2032" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/science/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">an/30/asteroid-spotted-chance-colliding-with-earth-2032</span></a></p><p>As an interested, but relatively poorly informed observer, the following quote got my attention</p><p>''The only <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/asteroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asteroid</span></a> ever to receive a higher rating is <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Apophis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apophis</span></a> which made headlines in 2004. Apophis was initially rated a four on the Torino scale but was later downgraded as observations showed that it posed no <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/threat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>threat</span></a> for at least a century'</p><p>By which time on current projections we will be in the stone age, so unable to do anything.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ExtinctionEvents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtinctionEvents</span></a></p>