# We are doomed....

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**Created:** [February 20, 2007, 9:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-doomed/24827 "2007-02-20T09:37:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-doomed/24827/42 "2007-02-21T17:07:50Z")

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Governments arent going to invest the countless billions of dollars it would take to develop a program that would successfully divert an asteroid on a 1:45000 chance. By the time something like this becomes a certainty, theres a good chance it will be too late to develop anything.

I’d guess that if a large asteroid is headed to hit the earth in 30 years, theres a 15% chance that we will be able to divert it.

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