Legendary science guru Bill Nye
A massive asteroid hitting our planet could end humanity as we know it. So what would we do if we found an asteroid heading for Earth?
In a new video from popular YouTube channel AsapScience, legendary science educator Bill Nye explains how we could potentially stop an asteroid hitting earth. Options include slamming into the asteroid with a rocket, sending up a huge rocket ship that could move an asteroid off course using mutual gravity, and “laser bees” that are powered by the sun.
He stresses the event is unlikely to occur, but we still need to be thinking vigorously about how to destroy or move an asteroid off its course.
“Just ’cause it’s unlikely, doesn’t mean it’s not a big deal,” Nye says in the video. “If it only happens once every few thousand years [and] if it happens on my watch, it would, as the kids say, ‘suck’. So we don’t want that to happen. Asteroids are serious business.”
Check out the video above for more.
Filed under: Science
Sean Ludwig 25 Jul, 2013
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