I watched a video on the asteroid that was fairly close to the Earth while passing by on Friday. The asteroid was only a couple hundred miles away. It came in between our furthest satellites from earth and our planet's surface. The video I watched featured Bill Nye answering questions about the asteroid and asteroids in general. I was kind of saddened by the fact that the video did not feature the Bill Nye theme song that I have come to know so well through his amazing educational videos. I think it makes my educational experience more memorable.
According to Bill Nye, one asteroid could obliterate an
entire city. I assume that it looks like the after effects of a nuclear missile
or something like that, I also kind of wonder if it would contain any radiation
or some odd space oddity. If it didn’t contain any radiation, I think that I
would prefer to get killed by an asteroid compared to an actual nuclear
missile, that way if I was hit by it I would just die instantly and not have to
live through painful radiation and all of the ugly and horrible side effects of
nuclear bombs.
Bill Nye also stated that the asteroid was discovered by a
group of young scientists or some space organization or group that isn’t really
well known and it sounded like it was discovered as a project or something.
Apparently, ninety nine percent of all of the asteroids out there are unknown.
These are the ones that we should be afraid of. But if we discover the
asteroids soon enough, all of the space organizations have technology that
would somehow make it possible to deter the asteroid enough to force it far
enough away to miss the earth and then leave us all safe. The technology would
have to be crazy accurate. Maybe they’ll shoot a laser or some sort of rocket
to break it into bits.
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