NASA Planning To Slam Aircraft Into Asteroid For A Save-The-Planet-Like Experiment

NASA is performing a first-of-its-kind experiment, slamming a spacecraft into a small harmless asteroid millions of miles away. The mission is to determine if NASA can deflect and reroute an asteroid if one were actually on track to impact Earth. NASA insists no asteroids are currently heading this way, but they aim to be prepared just in case one does.

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[cheezybred]

Would be funny if they redirect it right at earth.

[beachbum]

Why don't they just take a Sharpie pen and alter the asteroid's trajectory? It works for hurricanes! 😆😆

[garywalls]

There’s nothing to worry about this is just an experiment, is exactly what they would say if a meteor were screaming directly toward Earth.😅

[Bradyvilleboy]

The key to surviving an asteroid collision is to watch it very closely and jump up high in the air just as it hits. You will be fine.

[windwalker]

Doesn't "aircraft" indicate that it is flying through air? Not the vacuum of space?

[rooster]

Little do they know that this "nudge" will put this asteroid on a collision course with earth.

[VRtheFuture]

_"you're just an asteroid minding it's own business and all of a sudden here comes America to punch you in the face."_

*-an observant asteroid, probably.*

[gone]

will be like a mosquito on a car's windshield.

[unknownscp]

Imagine if it heads our way because of this experimentation

[WeylandLabs]

I think they missed the part in Armageddon where he said _" Imagine a firecracker in the palm of your hand, you set it off what happens ? "_ *Burn your hand* 🤣

[DusknerSA]

plot twist! this scenario actually puts it right on the path to hit our planet earth 🌎 🎉

[writerconsidered]

Its amazing the amount of effort we are willing to put into saving us from threats not human induced. we are our own extinctor. We'll do it just fine without a comet. But we won't save ourselves from ourselves.

[vanessajazp]

The irony would be that it sends the “harmless” asteroid into a collision course with the Earth, or a larger asteroid that will then be moved into a collision course with Earth.

[christophermichael.w.]

I'm more less indifferent to the idea of saving humanity from a giant asteroid.

[FoOtFoOt]

It’s only an aircraft until it leaves the atmosphere

[bellzebub]

NASA: hello, Bruce Willis?
Bruce: don't worry... I'll save us
Keanu Reeves: I'm going too...
Tom cruise: not without me
Matt Damon: mAtT dAMoN !

[TheUnpredictable]

Hey respect for finally taking a situation like that very seriously. Anything is possible in this world can happen so it’s always good to be prepared for anything.

[abrahamvieyra]

All its gonna do is make a tiny crater that asteroid is gonna say "you call that a punch?! I've been hit way more than that!"

[redlaven]

Humans never plan this far ahead. Bet almost anything they know of one heading this way.

[Princesspandapop]

At least NASA is still thinking about contingency plans! 👏🙌👏🙌👏