Would have destroyed a major city, not the Earth, but there is certainly more than one rock out there that is capable of ending civilization and these assholes would rather fiddle and waste money on the global warming fraud, than actually figure out how to prevent an asteroid strike.
A big one resets mankind back to the Stone Age. Maybe they would like that.
No it sends the earth back to a bacterial stage
To be honest we're not far above that now. Oh, we have advancements. We have technology. But in society, ethics, morals, culture---a fast track to total decay
We are far above that now as we are the most intelligent force in the known universe. We use bacteria in our guts
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A father recently left his two twin toddlers in a closed car all day while he was at work. They died. He says he had a brain drain and forgot them there. It could very well happen.
So I don't know how really "intelligent" we are. And that isn't even to speak out the complete idiot who took a gun into a crowded fair and gunned down strangers because he was angry.
I'm grateful to God, but I'm not all that impressed with us, on the whole.