[Rick Lee]

We'd probably get some advanced notice of a NEO hit. Amazing how so many people think the movie Deep Impact is science fiction. It's very much science non-fiction. Imagine if the comet that hit Tunguska had actually hit the mid-Atlantic today. And that was only around 100 yrs. ago. There have been countless others and will be countless more. What are the odds we could detect and deflect or destroy the objects that caused Tunguska or Meteor Crater in AZ if they were to happen today? Whatever does us in, I hope I'm gone in the initial hit. I don't think I want to stick around to see who dies last when the crops disappear after a year of no sunlight.