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adriancr on Sept 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Br...

We'd ideally get early warnings of asteroids.

Also, nukes don't get automatically launched (unless you're Russia at high alert and activated dead hand), that's why leaders exist.

q1w2 on Sept 21, 2021 [–]

Unlikely. The one that hit a couple years ago in Russia was not detected at all because it came from the solar side.

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