“Breaking news: It has been confirmed that Asteroid ‘Doomsday’, measuring 40 km across and travelling at a speed of 160,000 kmph, is going to hit Earth in 2 months and 21 days. May God be with us.”

For the first time in human history, no language has any word to describe the feeling of despair. People, whoever and wherever they are, are in a daze. Death, which is the ultimate end, is subconsciously accepted by everything that is alive, but each and every living thing thinks and believes that its turn is not near. Hope of living tomorrow keeps us living today. And one understands the true depth of the phrase “Ignorance is bliss” when thinking about death. Since it stays a mystery, we live. If the date of the final expiry is known, the living would die before death.

Comparisons start with the asteroid that hit Earth around 66 million years ago. The Chicxulub asteroid was approximately 10–15 km in diameter and was travelling at 72,000 kmph. It struck the planet at an angle of 45 to 60 degrees from the northeast, on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, releasing kinetic energy of around 100 teratons of TNT, which is comparable to billions of atomic bombs detonating simultaneously. The impact created a multi-ring crater 180–200 km across and 20–30 km deep, which is the largest on Earth. It wiped out 75% of the species, including dinosaurs. The apocalypse created, within seconds, a blast wave that flattened everything within hundreds of kilometres, generating winds exceeding speeds of 1,000 kmph. Mega-tsunamis over 100 metres high ravaged the land. Billions of tons of dust and other particles reached the stratosphere, blocking more than 50% of sunlight, resulting in the stoppage of photosynthesis and........

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