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Armageddon asteroids 'best kept secret'

A scientific adviser to the US government has suggested that secrecy might be the best option if scientists were ever to discover that a giant asteroid was on course to collide with Earth.
"If an extinction-type impact is inevitable, then ignorance for the populace is bliss. As a matter of common sense, if you can't intercept it and you can't move people out of the way in time, there's nothing you can do in terms of reducing the costs of the potential impact," said Geoffrey Sommer, of the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California.