CITY-KILLER IS A COMIN'...

While most large asteroids with the potential to destroy an entire country or continent have been detected (our planet has been hit by 26 asteroids since the year 2000) less than 10,000 of the more than a million dangerous asteroids with the potential to destroy an entire major metropolitan area have been found. "Because we don't know where or when the next major impact will occur, the only thing preventing a catastrophe from a "city-killer" sized asteroid has been blind luck," said a chirpy Dr. Ed Lu, as he headed off to his underground bunker...