Global Target Practice: How Asteroid Craters Unite Humanity in Cosmic Vulnerability
# The Global Pothole: How Asteroid Craters Remind Us We’re All Sitting Ducks Somewhere in the Yucatán Peninsula, there’s a 180-kilometer scar that serves as Earth’s most dramatic reminder that we’re essentially living on a cosmic dartboard. The Chicxulub crater—named after the Mexican town that now sits atop ground zero for the dinosaur apocalypse—has become…