![]() ![]() It is a tale of corruption, venality and political and corporate self-interest placed ahead of the health and welfare of humanity. Is ‘Don’t Look Up’ realistic?ĭon’t Look Up is an allegory, using the globally catastrophic impact of a “planet killer” for the globally catastrophic impact of climate change. ![]() The one that will get the closest will still be four times as far away as the Moon, so not exactly close calls. There are a further three asteroids predicted to pass between 1 and 5 million miles from the Earth in the next few days, ranging in size from that of a car to that of the Statue of Liberty. No, I didn’t notice them either – and I study asteroids. This hook has resulted in tabulations of objects that may (or, more likely, will not) come close to the Earth in 2022.īarringer Crater aerial photo. A couple ran stories at the end of 2021 about 2022 being the year in which Nostradamus predicted that the world would end in a giant impact with a body from space. Some UK newspapers have turned to Nostradamus, the 16th century astrologer. Maybe we are so tired of grim news about the spread of the omicron COVID variant and associated problems that a killer asteroid (or comet) makes a refreshing change. It has been my experience that killer asteroids tend to strike in the summer months, when news is thin on the ground. This may feel extra ominous given the events in the recent Netflix film “Don’t Look Up”, in which the Earth is threatened by a “planet killer” asteroid.īut how worried should we really be – and what would happen if such a body actually hit us? But in a change from reports of pandemics and climate change, this global catastrophe is produced by the impact of a giant asteroid. Don’t look now – but we are currently experiencing a rash of stories about a forthcoming global catastrophe. ![]()
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