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DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 2 months ago4 years to develop an effective anti-asteroid response?
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DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 2 months ago4 years to develop an effective anti-asteroid response?
knightly@pawb.social 2 months ago
Well, yeah. Deflecting an impact that’s scheduled 4 years in the future wouldn’t take much force and we did it once before with the DART mission. We can just do that again in the months between when the asteroid comes back around and when it flies past us.