by Eve Herold – Upworthy.com –
August 01, 2019 –
At the biannual Planetary Defense Conference earlier this year, NASA ran a simulation of an asteroid slamming into the center of Manhattan.
“For several millennia now, we’ve been lucky, but our luck won’t hold out forever.”
The gathering of astronomers, planetary scientists, and FEMA disaster-response experts attempted a number of interventions that might be possible within a time window of eight years, the given warning period before impact.