feeling listless

Space I'm not completely breathing a sigh of relief, but the odds of the human race being wiped out by an asteroid hitting the Earth have been reduced after careful study. New Scientist Will Knight: "The new estimate results from the most detailed survey of the Solar System's asteroids so far. Lead researcher Zeljko Ivezic of Princeton University acknowledges that the survey cannot guarantee safety, but adds: "It is clear that we should feel somewhat safer than we did before we had the survey data." " Yet another example of 'um-err don't know really' science, then.