Nasa to pretend asteroid is about to smash into Earth
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How do I be a meteor?
Start eating, like, everything, and then jump.
They aren't doing this for shits and gigs, this is a genuine excercise to understand how governments would react in such a scenario. Its only science fiction until it isn't, and NASA knows as well as anybody that its possible.
Felix Baumgartner may be able to offer classes on the subject
nothing's more immediate than tens of millions wiped out in an instant. Climate change is on a short but still too long for human attention scale. 100 years out is just not urgent enough with the effects being so subtle
Well in the case of RAGE though, they were lucky that it skimmed off the Moon first, that lowered it's mass and caused it to do less damage than they had predicted it would, it almost completely decimated the planet though.
If a real meteor was about to strike, we would already have porn of it
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