NASA mission that could save humanity | ABCNL

ABC News’ Gio Benitez reports on NASA’s first attempt to deliberately crash a space probe into an asteroid 7 million miles away in a critical test of planetary defense capabilities.

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[amberhough]

Plot twist... There's an asteroid barreling towards us right now and they're using the old "this is only a test" so people don't lose their marbles! LOL

[blake]

If only we had this much motivation to protect our oceans from pollution

[legalcustodian]

I don't see why we need all this fancy stuff when we have Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck on standby.

[joshuam.]

I for one would like asteroid collisions to be close to science fiction. I said close because smaller rocks would still hit us but the damage is next to none. Best to only reserve space threat concerns to solar flares.

[untouchablex]

Humanity's demise will be ourselves.

[jandd]

Now picture this... asteroid was not headed towards Earth. However, the mission deviates the asteroid to a course where it causes it to collide with a bigger one and changes its course toward Earth. That'll be a bad day

[SAM-]

What if they make a mistake and the little one changes the trajectory of the big asteroid and then the big one flys directly at us

[KellerCRD]

Watch them deflect the asteroid and it’s trajectory actually changes towards earth lol

[aristotlekumpis]

What if it goes wrong and they end up knocking something into Earth's orbit that comes hurling at us?

[DavidDallas]

Now won't this be something if they hit the asteroid and it changes the trajectory and ends up coming towards Earth or the Moon

[EnlightnMe]

What if the asteroid they just hit that wasn't a threat is now the one that hits an asteroid that hits an asteroid that hits an asteroid....?

[ajcoluzzi]

Is this like the part in the movie Armageddon where the guy says that be like shooting a BB gun at a freight train?

[carolinabarobalmaceda]

🇵🇭 Congratulations from all of humanity, thank you, GOD bless! 🇺🇸🇮🇹

[athansky]

☄️ Trying to deflect this asteroid might have an unintended recourse or it may become another NEO Near Earth Object.

[v_spw]

Asteroids are hitting our earth every single day. You just don’t know, they might at the moment your watching this video or comment.

[hollyburns]

What if they make an asteroid that was no threat in fact a threat one day?

[rcbutera]

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked!”
George Carlin

[datmeme]

If NASA mounted a mission to deflect an asteroid headed for an impact with earth and didn't want to panic the public, what would the perfect cover story be?

[spiritmiracle]

Youtube channel: Eric Dubay... video: LEVEL

[jennylharrellcatron]

You will NOT save humanity until you start doing the right thing on THIS planet. If you can’t do it, then please leave!