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Originally Posted by Stumptown
You cited two cases. That does not "clearly" imply that Earth impacts are declining. Those are just two that we know something about, one because it was observed, the other because it left a lot of evidence of the event. Earth gets hit by objects hundreds of times a day. Most of them are tiny, and burn up in the atmosphere. There is no statistical evidence to indicate that just because we haven't been hit by a big object in a while, that we won't in the future. In fact, it's the opposite. There is a 100% chance that Earth will be hit by a large object at some point in the future.
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Next time somebody posts that using green text to denote sarcasm isn't necessary, I'm going to refer them to this post.