{"id":9087,"date":"2021-11-23T12:59:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T12:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1373872"},"modified":"2021-11-23T12:59:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T12:59:24","slug":"why-nasa-is-going-full-michael-bay-and-attacking-an-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=9087","title":{"rendered":"Why NASA is going full Michael Bay and attacking an asteroid?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a move clearly inspired by the hyperrealistic movie Armageddon, NASA has decided to attack an asteroid.<\/p>\n

The space agency, however, has recklessly overlooked Michael Bay\u2019s ingenious idea of training oil drillers to become astronauts<\/a>. Nor will the NASA nerds follow the director\u2019s advice of blasting the rock with a nuclear bomb. Instead, they want to smack it with a spacecraft.<\/p>\n

Life disregarding art<\/h2>\n

Smaller asteroids frequently strike the Earth<\/a>, but most burn up in the atmosphere before they reach the planet\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean we have nothing to fear, however. Just try telling the dinosaurs that space<\/a> rocks aren\u2019t dangerous. You can\u2019t \u2014 because they were wiped out by an asteroid around 66 million years ago. I\u2019m sorry you had to find out this way.<\/p>\n

If you think that asteroid sounded bad, remember that it was only about 10 km wide. The comet in Armageddon, meanwhile, was<\/span> \u201cthe size of Texas\u201d\u2013 around 1,000 km wide. Given Bay\u2019s reputation as a cinematic soothsayer<\/a>, it\u2019s a relief that NASA is finally taking action.<\/p>\n

The agency\u2019s mission, superbly acronymized as DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), will test a novel method of averting future collisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cDART will be the first demonstration of the \u2018kinetic impactor\u2019 technique in which a spacecraft deliberately collides with a known asteroid at high speed to change the asteroid\u2019s motion in space,\u201d said Lindley Johnson, NASA\u2019s Planetary Defense Officer, <\/span>who will presumably play the role of Billy Bob Thornton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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<\/i><\/a>DART could provide insights into how to deflect dangerous near-Earth objects. <\/span>Credits: NASA\/Johns Hopkins, APL\/Steve Gribben<\/figcaption>