The meteor that slammed into Russia in February injured about 1,000 people and freaked out many more. Recent months have highlighted the danger of larger space objects that could bring doomsday if they collide with our planet.
We’ve seen potential proposals that involve vaporizing asteroids and capturing them.
Bong Wie, director of the Asteroid Deflection Research Center at Iowa State University, says we should nuke them.
At the recent International Space Development Conference in California, Wie described a plan to send a high-speed spacecraft to intercept a massive asteroid approaching Earth and destroy it with a nuclear warhead.
The cost to save the planet? A mere $1 billion.
If it sounds improbable, NASA has funded preliminary research into the plan to the tune of $600,000 under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program.
The Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle (HAIV) would be based on existing technology; in 2005, NASA hit Comet Tempel 1 with the hypervelocity Deep Impact probe. “Hypervelocity” usually refers to objects traveling at least 6,700 mph.
Editors note....This causes us to think on Revelation 19:19.