Deep Thoughts About Deep Impact
This discussions a little dated, but it just want to away. During an asteroid conference earlier in the month, a grad student made a comment that was apparently taken out of context to mean that if a "extinction-level" asteroid were going to strike Earth, that it would be best not to notify the public, so as to avoid the panic. Now, there are numerous flaws with this arguement, such as its core assumption that nobody not in on the conspiracy would notice the asteroid. That said, what do you think? Should the public be told? Would you want to be told?
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