Very Important Study Calculates Your Chance of Being Killed by an Asteroid vs Several Other Scary Things
In what first appears like a rather morbid game of “which would you rather?”, researchers have released a new study that games out how likely the average person is to die should one of various mishaps like car crashes, carbon monoxide poisoning, and lightning strikes, occur—or because a giant asteroid destroys the Earth. The probability of a planet-annihilating asteroid crashing into Earth is low, but it’s not zero. In fact, Earth had a recent close call when a newly discovered asteroid was cal