Much-feared asteroid Apophis won't hit Earth for at least 100 years, Nasa says

Chunk of space rock was once the ‘poster child for hazardous asteroids’ but it will be a while before humans need to worry about it again
The asteroid Apophis was thought to be a risk of hitting Earth in 2068. Photograph: AP

We have to assume we'll get through this.

We have to assume we'll survive.

We have to assume, not a moment too soon,

the miracle happens, the cavalry arrives.

BUT … if our assumptions are simply presumptions

based on nothing but wishes,

AND, begging the question, suggest the suggestion

may not we all soon sleep with the fishes?

Hope springs eternal. A notion infernal

which nevertheless served us well,

added illusion, enhanced delusion,

diverted conclusion it's all gone to hell.

Such is the nature of Freud's Life Drive.

We've condemned to assume we'll come out alive.

Today this is seen as increasingly quaint

as many now realize that true it ain't.

Forget the future, choose present instead.

As Keynes often warned in the long run we're dead.