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If we had 10 years warning, we might be able to stop it. If we could get out to it while it was still very far from Earth, it might not take much energy to defl
by schwarrrtz 10y ago
If we had 10 years warning, we might be able to stop it. If we could get out to it while it was still very far from Earth, it might not take much energy to deflect it. This is why it's important to build systems to detect such objects, like the Sentinel mission from B612.
https://b612foundation.org/sentinel/ https://b612foundation.org/sentinel/
- Retric 10y agoAsteroids are tiny in comparison. My example was ~125,000 times the mass of what killed the dinosaurs.