{"id":409,"date":"2002-07-30T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2002-07-30T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=409"},"modified":"2009-04-21T19:31:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T03:31:55","slug":"dinosaurs-safe-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"dinosaurs safe for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/2158898.stm\">Asteroid 2002NT7<\/a> won&#8217;t hit us in 2019, but may hit us in 2060.  (<strong>Later<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/neo.jpl.nasa.gov\/risk\/removed.html\">Nor then.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been hearing (on the <a href=http:\/\/www.ideosphere.com\/fx-bin\/ListClaims>Foresight Exchange<\/a> lists) that minor impacts like Tunguska probably happen about once a century, going unnoticed without modern communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asteroid 2002NT7 won&#8217;t hit us in 2019, but may hit us in 2060. (Later: Nor then.) I&#8217;ve been hearing (on the Foresight Exchange lists) that minor impacts like Tunguska probably happen about once a century, going unnoticed without modern communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}