Going the Way of the Dinosaurs

Just in case you missed it and presuming you need something more to add to your growing list of worries consider this:  

During the last 290 million years the rate of asteroids striking the earth and the moon has suffered a sharp increase.  It used to be that an asteroid strike would occur once every 3 million years.  The strikes are now occurring once every 1 million years.  

William Bottke - a researcher on the team at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, said the uptick in asteroid strikes was probably caused by one or more giant space rocks breaking up in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter about 300 million years ago. 

If mass extinction events give you cause for alarm be sure to wear a helmet if you are going outside for a stroll.  As for me, I’ll be hanging out in my bunker. 

You can learn more about the science behind this here.