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Perhaps we should get our priorities straight. While here on earth humans argue and quibble about all manner of things, the universe will fling a couple rather large boulders in our general direction tomorrow, and most of us won't have any clue we were this close to getting clipped.

The two asteroids will travel inside the distance between the earth and the moon, according to NASA:

    Asteroid 2010 RX30 is estimated to be approximately 32 to 65 feet in size and will pass within approximately 154,000 miles of Earth at 5:51 a.m. EDT Wednesday. The second object, 2010 RF12, estimated to be 20 to 46 feet in size, will pass within approximately 49,000 miles at 5:12 p.m. EDT.

This is a near-miss in terms of distance; the moon's average orbit is only 238,600 miles from the earth.
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