They consider it a smashing success not only because they achieved the goal they set out to achieve, but because of the "smashing" joke. I don't think they've a

They consider it a smashing success not only because they achieved the goal they set out to achieve, but because of the "smashing" joke. I don't think they've advertised these deflections as a perfectly reliable system...they're still experiments lmao. What other organisation is developing and testing planetary defences to such a degree? I'm personally just extremely happy that we're doing _something_ about planet killing objects, now I need only cross my fingers that we don't kill our planet ourselves, through environmental negligence or nuclear war.