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 How NASA is going to be our galactic defender against asteroids
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Elizabeth Rayne
 
Feb 18, 2018
 

Imagine a house-sized asteroid coming for you out of nowhere. Now try to process that this actually happened.

On a gray morning in 2013, that asteroid exploded with an ear-shattering sonic boom over Chelyabinsk, Russia. This was not just a blip on astronomical radar. It released the energy of 440,00 tons of TNT, blasting windows and damaging buildings over 200 square miles and littering the city with shards of glass that injured over 1,600 people.

http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/how-nasa-is-going-to-be-our-galactic-defender-against-asteroids

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Re: How NASA is going to be our galactic defender against asteroids
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2018, 05:53:13 pm »
I'd put them in the Hemorrhoids business.... cus if the big one is on a direct course to the blue marble we call home.. there aint shit NASA can do about it.
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