The asteroid (or whatever its correct name is ?!) did not cause serious damage.
However I wonder if at any time in the future a VERY much bigger and more massive one could more or less obliterate a country - or for that matter shift the earth from its present orbit, with whatever consequences that would create !!
I wonder if anything can be done to obviate the above adverse phenomena ?
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The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour:-
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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