Millions Would Die If Tunguska Event-Sized Asteroid Exploded Over NYC | Video

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 14:00 in Mathematics & Economics

Ed Lu (B612 Foundation/Fmr. NASA astronaut) testified that "whatever the entire population of the city was..would be gone" during a Senate hearing on potentially hazardous asteroids. The 1908 Tunguska Meteor leveled 800 sq. miles of forest.

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