Asteroids helped create life
Amusingly, the collisions that could possibly bring death to us may be the reason we are alive today.
When Earth was formed it was unable to support growth and desolate. Asteroid and comet collisions may have delivered the water-ice and other carbon-based molecules that allowed the planet to evolve and support life after billions of years.
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