Apophis. Greek name for the Egyptian demon Apep,
snake-like spirit that, legend has it, attempted to destroy
the sun and plunge the world into eternal darkness some
6,000 years ago. Flash forward to it’s namesake today, out
there in space, big, fast, heading our way, on a mission to
destroy mankind by a different method.
Apophis has morphed, now a near earth object, a 220 foot wide
asteroid demon with a one in 5,500 chance to impact our planet
in 2036, only 29 short years away, taking untold millions of lives
while wrapping the planet in a cloud of murky dust. Laugh not at
the odds, rather consider that the potential consequences are just
too great, too serious to not be taken seriously, the tiniest
risk unacceptable. Consider also many have won the lottery jackpot
at odds of millions to one, making 5,500 sound a small number.
If 29 years seems a long warning period, scientists and
governments worldwide know it’s not, working at this moment, day
and night, planning, calculating, searching for the most certain
way to destroy the demon asteroid, to annihilate the evil snake
in 21st century guise. Apophis has returned. Let us pray mankind
not go the way of the dinosaurs 65 million years past.
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