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This headline is an uplifting way to begin your Friday.

Apocalyptic asteroid strike that could wipe out humanity is only a matter of time, top

scientist warns.

Professor Alan Fitzsimmons of Queens University Belfast told the BBC,

We will get a serious asteroid impact sometime. It may not be in our

lifetime, but Mother Nature controls when that will happen. Here's another news item to make your day.

We may be facing a French fry crisis. Crop damage due to cold and wet weather is causing a shortage of potatoes in North America.

As a result, the U.S. Department of Agriculture expects the nation's output of potatoes to drop

6.1 percent compared to the previous year. Consequently, prices may rise and we may see a shortage

of French fries in the near future.

Here's my question.

Which of these stories feels more real to you?

We've been warned about killer asteroids before, but humanity still survives.

Fortunately, NASA assures us that it knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth,

so the probability of a major collision is quite small.

In fact, as best as we can tell, no large object is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred years.

Here's the problem. The Space Agency could be wrong.

They didn't spot the city killer asteroid that narrowly missed Earth last July until just hours before it shot past us.

The manager of NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies admitted,

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