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NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver this morning in Newport Beach, closing her talk on the importance of asteroid detection. Slides and video below.
“This is a threat we can do something about. We can be smarter than the dinosaurs.”
Oh, and that reminds me that I had not shared Don Petit’s cool video presentation of a physics experiment in the International Space Station, with a bubble in a bubble on a speaker…
Then a colleague floated by: “There’s so much physics here I almost peed my pants.” — Don Petit in the ISS. He concludes: “Science , math and engineering is the key to everything cool in life.”
"We only know about 1% of the asteroids that could be city-destroyers."
She gave a shout out for the B612 solution — a heliocentric satellite that would plot the trajectory of all NEO threats to Earth, for 100 years into the future:
turning a bug into a feature…
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