Bill Nye teamed up with Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE to come up to one of the most urgent not - if - but - when doubt in recent memory : how do we turn back a major asteroid from colliding with Earth ?
Preventing an asteroid from hit Earth , of course , relies on our being able todetect it far enough forward of metre . Then some sanctioning organic structure will need to be in explosive charge of any preventative measures . Who should be in charge of protecting Earth?Presumably some international sanctioning body , seeing as an object goodly enough could have planet - wide gist .
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Then , of course , there ’s the interrogative of how to stop / deflect / deflect the genuine , imminent , incoming , holy - crap - it’s - really - happening asteroid . Do wedeflect it with a spaceship?Do we usenuclear devices?Do wethrow Bruce Willis at it ?
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We ’ll let Bill explain .
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