picture the scene you're happily going
about your daily business when suddenly
the sky grows dark the winds pick up and
everyone around you begins to scream in
terror without any prior warning an
asteroid strike has triggered the end of
the world and you're caught right in the
middle of it how did it come to this and
why weren't you at least told about it
beforehand
this is unveiled and today we're
answering the extraordinary question why
would the government want to hide proof
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of all the doomsday possibilities out
there an asteroid strike is perhaps the
most high profile the consensus is that
it was an asteroid about seven miles
wide that killed off the dinosaurs
around 66 million years ago when it
impacted close to what's now the coast
of mexico the incredible event is then
thought to have triggered thousands of
years worth of planet-wide adaption as
the non-avian dinos perished in a new
and for them toxic environment while the
rise of the mammals took hold clearly
because the dinosaurs weren't quite as
cognitively advanced as we are and
because they didn't have a civilization
to speak of the asteroid will have taken
them quite by surprise but fast forward
from then to now and an approaching hunk
of space rock today represents quite a
different prospect for all on planet
earth even if it does have the potential
to destroy the entire world now there
are smart and intuitive humans around
who can spot an asteroid long before it
arrives and that should give us at least
a little bit of comfort or
should it
government cover-up conspiracies have
taken quite a hold these days as the
link between the powers that be and the
general public can appear at times both
more strained and more distant than ever
before the result is that there are now
various variously contested claims that
the government is hiding something big
from everyone else we took a closer look
at the prospect of aliens in another
recent video but now it's the turn of
asteroids because why would a government
want to hide proof of an imminent impact
event first let's underline that we're
not claiming in this video that any
government actually is engaging in an
asteroid cover-up we're merely imagining
the reasons why they might do so and
next let's crisply and quickly get the
first possible reason out in the open
the need or desire to avoid public panic
this reasoning so often comes up
whenever the social impact of an
upcoming apocalypse is considered and
perhaps with good reason in this case if
an asteroid was coming and everyone did
know about it perhaps there really would
be a solid helping of reckless abandon
lawlessness in the streets and a general
breakdown of society as people ditch
their jobs and responsibilities in favor
of other things in this their last few
days on earth it needn't always be so
dark however as there's reason to
believe that what people are most likely
to do is just strive to be with their
loved ones the infamous false alarm
missile alert that was sent to residents
of hawaii in 2018 seemingly proves this
with little to no reports of unruliness
during the few minutes when it was
genuinely thought that nuclear missiles
really were on their way instead there
were multiple stories of friendship and
kindness placed on record which is a
little more encouraging what would you
do during the countdown to asteroid
arrival do you think public panic counts
as reason enough to hush up an imminent
disaster let us know in the comments
there are perhaps some less
straightforward and less well-meaning
reasons as to why the government might
wish to keep quiet however the 2021
movie don't look up shines a fresh light
on two of the more popular themes within
various conspiracy claims one that money
drives everything and two that there's a
kind of rampant self-centeredness in
elite and powerful circles a government
might then want to hide proof of an
asteroid strike not to divert the
attention of the public but rather to
divert the attention of other
governments and countries as is explored
and don't look up what happens if the
approaching asteroid is found to be
valuable perhaps one group would rather
keep it to themselves to try and figure
out a way to either get to it first or
else survive it so that they and only
they can reap the financial rewards
afterwards
while asteroids may be a constant
concern to those who worry that one day
death will crash down upon them from
above even the vague prospect of a large
one actually reaching earth intact is a
rare occurrence so any opportunity to
own that asteroid may well be taken with
both hands by a government that's greedy
enough or at least that's the general
line of thinking with some conspiracy
claims another is that governments
perhaps wouldn't let on if a catastrophe
was about to unfold because they
themselves should be fine even if the
worst did happen what with all the
emergency bunkers and underground or
mountainside complexes that they
reportedly have to flee to the
suggestion is that the world's most
powerful people are fully prepared to
ride out the storm this again plays into
the idea of a holy self-interested few
presiding over an otherwise helpless
majority
but is the world really like that could
governments really be that self-involved
over and over again no matter who leads
them at any given time again let us know
your thoughts one thing's for sure if
the government did want to hide proof of
an asteroid strike they'd have an
incredibly hard job to do so consider
how far-reaching the field of astronomy
and the study of space is nowadays skip
back just a couple generations and the
stars moons and planets were almost
universally unknown if you weren't a
high-ranking high-profile and highly
intelligent academic or scientist but
now the knowledge is widespread amateur
stargazing contributes so much to our
overall records of space and times have
certainly changed perhaps covering up an
incoming asteroid would be truly
impossible in the modern world then no
matter what the reason for doing so
might be
government-backed groups are still more
likely to make the first discovery yes
but if it's in the sky and heading
straight for us then chances are that
someone else will pick it up too whether
or not the world would believe that
someone else until they had wider
support is perhaps another matter which
leads to today's final all-too-often
alleged reason why a government might
choose to hold back the truth when it
comes to asteroids because
would their people even believe them or
if the evidence for the asteroid was
entirely undeniable would their people
continue to see them as the right group
to lead them through the coming problems
if nothing else an approaching rock from
space would represent a major political
minefield literally never before in the
whole of recorded human history will any
government have dealt with similar
circumstances and that according to some
conspiracists could be enough to keep it
under wraps the end of the world is nigh
so
what are you gonna do about it that or
words to that effect would be the
question on the lips of every human
being and could any government
really front an answer of course so much
about this scenario would depend on the
technology that's at our disposal and
here there is reason to be cheerful in
late 2021 nasa launched the double
asteroid redirection test otherwise
known as dart it represents a
breakthrough moment in planetary defense
as our scientists and engineers look to
prepare our world for anything that
could threaten it from afar if all goes
to plan we'll find out if dart works in
late september 2022 when it smashes into
a far-off piece of rock and hopefully
changes its route through space
of course the world has been officially
assured that the target for dart isn't
on course to strike earth there is
currently no asteroid heading our way
and this isn't a last-ditch attempt to
save us all but rather it's a test run
of the kinds of tech that we could
potentially use in that future situation
thankfully we're not there yet and let's
hope that if the time does ever arrive
then we'll all be told well enough in
advance to at least try to make the most
of our last days before impact but
nevertheless
that's why the government might want to
hide proof of an asteroid strike
what do you think is there anything we
missed let us know in the comments check
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