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1 Post author: fortyeridania 07 March 2012 10:15AM

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Comment author: bramflakes 07 March 2012 08:26:27PM 0 points [-]

Global effects come from an impact roughly every 500,000 years, so the odds are about 20 percent for a catastrophic, civilisation-threatening impact within 100,000 years.

That doesn't reassure me.