An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Thursday night, one of the closest such encounters ever recorded. NASA insists it will be a near miss with no chance of the asteroid hitting Earth. The U.S. space agency said Wednesday that this newly discovered asteroid will zoom 3,600 kilometres above […]
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Stephen Hawking: Asteroid Collision Wiping Out Humanity by 3016?!
Are humans doomed? Stephen Hawking, the renowned physicist, thinks so. Hawking said that humanity will only have 1,000 years left, with an impending asteroid collision possibly wiping out humans by 3016. During a speech at the Oxford University Union, Hawking noted that climate change, nuclear weapons and genetically engineered viruses could pose a threat to […]