Rocks From Space

It is a widely accepted story now, that a huge object hit Earth sixty five million years ago and killed all dinosaurs. What about the future? One would expect that NASA and other world organizations would be monitoring the sky for the next big one. Today I read in the recent issue of Discover Magazine in the library near my house, that this effort started through the initiative of private citizens like the Shoemakers. I could not stop the thought that this must have been going on at the government agencies but without informing the public.

The reason for my suspicion is an older event. In the seventies X-rays were monitored by both US and Soviet governments to verify that neither country was exploding nuclear bombs. As it happened these instruments had recorded several events, but coming from up in space not from the ground! Therefore the first strong evidences of the existence of black holes were kept away from the general public.

It seems to me that now the issue is the Star Wars program started by Reagan that kept this more important information away from us. We could literally die during this century by the impact of a big object from space.

I hope they give us enough warning to try to save our lives when that happens.