The first meeting of an international group tasked with figuring out how to react to asteroids that threaten our very existence is set for next week. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011.
As a holdover fragment of 1950s sci-fi kitsch, “earthling” seems a benign enough term or at least one of uncomplicated convenience: a single rubric under which all we terrestrially bound types might ...