NASA simulated an asteroid headed for Earth and has bad news for us

[Mike Wehner]

In disaster movies, games, or TV shows where there is an asteroid headed for Earth, the news always comes as a shock. Depending on the specifics of the story, the population of the planet may have anywhere from a few days to a few months to prepare for the inevitable. Things always seem grim, but more often than not, humanity manages to pull a rabbit out of its hat and come up with a plan that saves billions of lives. But that's fiction, and even though mankind possesses some pretty spectacular technologies, chances are we wouldn't be as lucky as our fictional counterparts. In fact, a recent simulation experiment conducted by NASA more or less proves that an asteroid headed for Earth would spell doom, even if we had six months to prepare for it.

During the annual Planetary Defense Conference, scientists from a number of space agencies participated in a simulated emergency response scenario where a fictional asteroid called 2021 PDC was bound for Earth. The scientists determined they had six months to plan and as the fictional days and months passed, the future began to look incredibly bleak.

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