'Badass move': Neil deGrasse Tyson praises NASA's latest mission

CNN's John Berman speaks with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about NASA's DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, which is set to crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try to change its motion in space. #CNN #News

[ejwrbgv]

How dare this asteroid think it can destroy us when we're doing such a great job on our own

[DavidJ]

"Man, what are you doing with a gun in space?" 😅

[truhtherion]

"Science is the poetry of reality" - Richard dawkins

[DavidJ]

“Being disintegrated makes me very angry! Very angry indeed!”
‒ Marvin The Martian.

"Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!”
– Marvin The Martian

[APRIL.BLOSSOM]

I interviewed with NASA OIG for about 8 months, and even though I didn’t get selected in the last round; their company culture is so so so cool! I interviewed with people from every department- even ones I’d never directly work with, just so I could get a feeling for the workplace culture and every single person was BRILLIANT AND SO HUMBLE. Love this piece you covered!

[Zenithx]

Nobel Prize Redefined. Math is way more powerful than magic. Absolutely Astonishing.

[troubledsole]

I love Tyson’s little jab at the anti-science people.

[susanc]

I love scientists. Imagine a world where everyone listened to scientists.

[walstib]

I love everything Neil Degrasse Tyson!

[songconnection]

NASA employ more animation artists than Disney!

[victoriadavis]

Testing long range missiles makes me, Russia and China nervous. We do don't know what will happen ? Disrupting a gravitational formation just cause we can is irresponsible unless needed. Detect not determined the trajectory of the outcome. Respectfully In my opinion

[tyrannosaurus]

I still don’t understand why modern society is still against NASA.

[karamalong]

So basically nasa had a missle launch.

[akinnon]

In the future, we will catch those asteroids to mine them.

[brianmurphy]

Knocking an Asteroid off its trajectory, what could possibly go wrong?

[manuel]

Push it early enough? The last couple of asteroids that almost crashed into earth had like a two week warning lol

[ericmaher]

To have Faith means to believe in something regardless of lack in evidence. Definitely not the right word! lol

[muldersrevenge]

This is impressive. I'm very concerned about the unintended consequences of this.

[reneedaniel]

I love Neil's sum up's,
and bad ass move is THE perfect summary 😂

[CrasyFingers]

serious question: what don't they just nuke it? if it becomes into smaller pieces they're gonna have less kinetic energy and more surface area so the atmosphere would slow them down even more. also the DART is gonna crash into a smaller asteroid, what if it's a really big asteroid, would the difference in weight ratio move the asteroid way less?