annals of space ·
It’s very unlikely that a major comet will crash into the Earth—but not so unlikely that leading scientists around the world haven’t begun to plot ways to make sure it doesn’t happen, Timothy Ferris wrote, in 1997.
Timothy Ferris
Timothy Ferris is an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of a dozen books—including, most recently, “The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature.”
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