Let’s say a killer asteroid is headed toward earth and we manage to get our heads together long enough to aim a nuke at it and actually hit the thing. We might still be hosed.
And assuming we can destroy the asteroids, what do we do about the orange dwarf star coming right for us?
We still have major environmental issues to deal with (not the least of which is short-sighted climate change deniers), but still, it’s good to remember how far we’ve come.
National Geographic’s website has a sperm race game up. No, I haven’t played it. No, I’m not likely to.
The science has been clear on this for a while, and now the legal system is catching up: there’s no causal relationship between thimerosal and autism.