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We Could Be Hit By Five Building-sized Asteroids By The End Of The Century - So What Are We Going To Do About It?
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We Could Be Hit By Five Building-sized Asteroids By The End Of The Century - So What Are We Going To Do About It?
It’s amazing how much one movie can act as a cultural touchpoint for an entire topic - even a topic as serious as defense of a planet. Popular media consistently use the 1998 movie Armageddon as a reference when talking about how we would destroy a civilization-ending asteroid. That’s despite the movie’s glaring scientific flaws, not the last of which is the likely size of the rogue comet that threatens the Earth. Planetary defense researchers a…
Public perception of planetary defense is often anchored in cinematic narratives, such as the 1998 film Armageddon, which depicts the destruction of civilization by asteroids. However, the reality of the threat of cosmic impacts, as pointed out by planetary defense researchers at MIT, is significantly different and, in many respects, more imminent. Current scientific attention is focused on considerably smaller-scale, but far more frequent, obje…
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