Indeed. Our solar system is actually very quiet and cleared out compared to a few of our closest neighbors, like Vega and Epsilon Eridani, where the cometary and asteroid content is far higher due to being much younger solar systems.
But yes, I find it comforting that we're finding these things as fast as we are - and that video only points out the discoveries from the asteroid belt and not the kuiper belt (which is far, larger and has far more dormant comets and asteroids hanging out back there.)
Plus it's still difficult to wrap your head around because the vast majority of the number of findings have been within the last decade, dwarfing the discoveries during the 80s and 90s, when asteroid and small-body searching wasn't nearly as prominant as it is today.
It just proves that our solar backyard is still an interesting and active place to live around, IMHO.
But yes, I find it comforting that we're finding these things as fast as we are - and that video only points out the discoveries from the asteroid belt and not the kuiper belt (which is far, larger and has far more dormant comets and asteroids hanging out back there.)
Plus it's still difficult to wrap your head around because the vast majority of the number of findings have been within the last decade, dwarfing the discoveries during the 80s and 90s, when asteroid and small-body searching wasn't nearly as prominant as it is today.
It just proves that our solar backyard is still an interesting and active place to live around, IMHO.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
