Remember when you were very little?… and you had a dog. But now that you think about it, it was a very old dog. And, it wasn’t around all that long, because after a while he “went to live on a big farm upstate, where he can run and run!”. And now that you think about it, you realize that it was all a lie. A lie formulated by your parents to shield your still forming brain from the harsher realities of life.
Ignorance is bliss, isn’t it?
Well, presumably you’re mature enough to handle some of the harsher realities of life by now, because we just barely missed the mother of all harsher realities: A killer Asteroid (named “2019OK”, if you care. However, he’s always liked the nickname “Rocco”). It just squeaked by at 1/6 the distance from the moon, so if you felt the whoosh of a passing body that was it.
While not the size of a dinosaur killer, it would have done serious harm to civilization. Upon hitting the atmosphere, one could expect that it would break up into smaller and less dangerous rocks. Smaller and less dangerous, but a great many more of them, and those rocks would have rained down on Earth wiping out any thing unlucky enough to be in the way of a phalanx of unguided missiles.
It would have been like God was “carpet bombing” a huge swath of the World.
…But instead it “went off to live on a farm where it could run and run as much as it wanted!”.
Ignorance IS bliss. It was gone before we even had a chance to get Bruce Willis to go into space to stop it. So, are your affairs in order? Have you apologized for that thing you did? You know…to that guy…? You might not get another chance, you might get hit by a bus tomorrow- or smashed into smithereens by cosmic debris.
As for paying off bills? Ehhh not so much. If the world ends, who cares who has the money?
