Normally #crashing is not a good thing, but in this case we see #nasa purposefully #crashing into an #asteroid to test their ability to change it's #trajectory https://hackaday.com/2022/09/26/watch-na.. This will provide #valuable #data in figuring out how to prevent #collisions with the #earth in the #future . Quite a cool moment!
#random #thought - We should keep a large #asteroid #orbiting the #earth and fling it at anything that comes to close. It makes much more sense to make use of something with a lot of #mass and #energy than to try and put something from the #surface up into #orbit ... The only thing is ensuring that it is #maintainable and #future #safe .
Woah, #nasa are going to test the idea of purposely #crashing a #spacecraft into an #asteroid in order to change its #trajectory https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/nas.. This is part of a #planet #defence #strategy for stopping something smashing into the #earth ...
I'm glad #nasa is taking the #asteroid / #meteor #threat seriously: https://hackaday.com/2021/09/10/nasa-are.. Just like a #global #pandemic - it's not a problem until it suddenly is. The problem is in two parts - first you must #detect it (which is only possible in some directions, sizes and velocities) and then you must do something about it. These are seriously open problems we don't yet have solutions for.