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Originally Posted by Overflow
Not that this has much to do with this event.. But if you knew that the entire population of earth was doomed because a meteor was heading our way, and nothing could be done, would you tell the general public?
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I wouldn't tell the public, why cause mass hysteria over it. Why let people worry their lives away not to mention the casualties that would be directly caused because of other people knowing. Especially if it was a certainty, there would be no reason to care anymore about anything besides yourself and a select few of you choosing.
Either way it's not like we knew this was coming and decided not to tell, the asteroid avoidance for smaller objects like this is the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack, we track things that we know are up there and things that we ourselves put up there.
But correct me if I'm wrong, don't we only search for objects of a certain size or greater? I can't remember the exact dimensions but I know it's listed somewhere.