Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them.
Michio Kaku
Related Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never... ELON MUSK If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... We must all face our demons sooner or later. MATT ABRAMS When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming aster... NATHAN MYHRVOLD The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this fo... G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Suitland has never been hit like we hit them. We knew we had to bring it to them. We worked all week... MATT REID It's just the tip of the iceberg. Sooner or later, we're going to hit the stride when we need to hit... FRED SMOOT I think we hit some hit posts, especially in the third and fourth quarters. Take nothing away from W... DAN TEAT We, of all the beings that we know of, can think. We can eat, write, build, save. We can predict, es... TARUN BETALA Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... The extra skills are going to help a lot. We're all beefing up our tumbling, and hopefully it will g... ASHLEY JACOB The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters. JOSE MOURINHO We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Lawyers are like morticians. We all need one sooner or later, but better later than sooner. EILEEN GOUDGE Certainly what happened to the dinosaurs was not good - that was a terrible day for the dinosaurs, v... CARRIE NUGENT I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Sooner or later we all quote our mothers. BERN WILLIAMS She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luc... CARRIE RYAN We are not coming in saying we are going to walk all over them. We are going to come in confident th... DAVID BOLLAND The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever ANNE FRANK We got hit on one side of the face, and now we're going to go get hit on the other. DAVID MICA we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI We knew it was a gamble. The world had to see (the pairing) sooner or later. HAL SUTTON Death is a part of all our lives. Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen. Instead of avoid... DALAI LAMA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister. TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma... TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th... TRISHA LEAVER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com... NICK HORNBY Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy... PAULO COELHO Our pitchers did a very nice job. I think we only had two walks, so they did a good job of throwing ... BRIAN MORRISON People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The onl... CARRIE FISHER By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species... RUSTY SCHWEICKART We knew he was going sooner or later. And that's what he wanted to do. ALICE F. JONES We never count our chickens until they are actually published. The sooner we can get these regulatio... JANICE NOLEN I know our defense can hit a little bit. We came out and knew what we had to do and we got it done. JAKE VILLHAUER Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were mo... BUZZ ALDRIN We knew it would be a big hit if it was not only the students, it was the community. PAIGE BARGER When the entire region is affected, how can we say how many birds are hit? We are taking no chances ... ANEES AHMED We hit the ball. It was the first time all season we hit it that hard. The players responded to our ... JACK KORPAR Baker really pitched a solid game tonight. We only hit one ball hard until the eight inning there. W... LARRY LEE They kept a 10-point lead most of the game. We played a better game than we have. We knew we had to ... JEFF TARKOWSKI We must start to prepare for a warming world in the same way that we prepare for the possibility of ... JACKIE SPEIER I know we're better than what we've shown. We haven't hit our stride. It's all about confidence for ... JOSH GENTLE What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do. STEPHEN KING Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling. ANTHONY DOERR There was no such thing as a fair fight. All vulnerabilities must be exploited. CARY CAFFREY If the Supreme Court says we can [build], we will. If the court says we can't, we'll probably just d... GLENN RICHARDSON Stephanie Burnett hit a great ball. We hit the balls the rest of the innings, it's just we hit it ri... GRANT HALL I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Our kids believe if we hit on all cylinders, we can compete with anyone. JEFF BRENNING Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues wil... GORE VIDAL Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. GEORGE ARLISS Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life... GEORGE ARLISS That's the story of our team all year. We never quit. I knew we would play hard the entire game. ANDY RUCKER The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit. DARRELL HAMMOND In life we have choices, and depending on the choices we all make will determine our final path, roa... GARY F EVANS... It's better for everyone if it gets sorted out soon sooner rather than later, ... We both need this ... JENSON BUTTON We knew that sooner or later our shots would start falling. Sometimes kids get frustrated. It was go... LOU PALKOVICS Sooner or later, if left unaddressed, this natural human tendency will undermine the entire CPC pyra... PATRICK MENDIS People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. ... CARRIE FISHER Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO Guys, they hit us in the face, and we let them. BRUCE SHUMAKER This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaur... L. NEIL SMITH We took it to the hole every time. I don't think Wooster knew what hit them. BRYAN HOWARD We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR
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