Dream-walking towards the planetoid bomb - Devdiscourse

If the DART mission succeeds, humanity will have demonstrated a destructive capability vastly exceeding that of nuclear weapons.Allowing private corporations to map and alter asteroid orbits would also be extremely dangerous.

The DART mission to redirect an asteroid is billed as potentially planet-saving. But in the wrong hands, it has seriously destructive potential. In September 2022 an event of planetary importance wi… [+5915 chars]

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