The only potentially interesting thing these days is that I've read that NASA is starting to create panic (yes, the politically correct expression is "caution", please replace according to your language sensitivity) linked to the potential of meteorites destroying habitable land to the size of an average US state [1].
So, I guess after we'd enough of pandemics (I'm literally dying from boredom), we'll get into the mode of avoiding Space danger (because astronomers also need to make money, biotechs are fine now - thank you to all who made contributions, due to fear or other more pragmatic reasons). But I guess it might take another 10 years to get to that new thing (sigh).
In 2000s we had terrorism, in 2010, we had market crash, now pandemic, 2030 might be a space attack.
(to give you more of history: 1990s were Iron Curtain collapse, 1970s - oil crises, in 1980 I was born, so I skip that one as an obvious event of the century; and before 1970 my memory of the history is not sufficient 😊).
And by the way, I'm gonna help NASA (as a good citizen):
"[a 20 m asteroid] has a .41% chance of hitting Earth. That means there is a 1 in 240 chance that it will make an impact or a 99.95% chance that it will miss Earth." [3].
Notice that's more than risk of dying from COVID (not that it's a fair comparison, for many reasons, don't ask...).
References:
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/30/threat-to-earth-posed-by-meteors-must-be-taken-seriously-nasa-warns.html
[2] https://media-pi.fr/agora-pi/le-poing-de-feu/
[3] https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/08/21/is-earth-really-in-danger-of-an-asteroid-impact-in-november-heres-what-we-know/
