{"id":26414,"date":"2023-09-26T15:29:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T15:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/?p=26414"},"modified":"2023-09-26T15:29:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T15:29:27","slug":"nasa-should-take-hollywood-films-inspiration-for-asteroid-plan-says-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/world-news\/nasa-should-take-hollywood-films-inspiration-for-asteroid-plan-says-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA should take Hollywood films inspiration for asteroid plan, says expert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    NASA has been urged to take inspiration from two hit films from decades ago when dealing with the potentially Earth-destroying asteroid Bennu.<\/p>\n

    Last week, scientists revealed the exact day an asteroid could smash into the Earth's surface. The space rock, named Bennu, passes by our planet every six years, but boffins reckon we could be on course for collision with the asteroid on September 24, 2182. While the potential doomsday date is a long way off, NASA is already working hard to divert Bennu and are in the "final leg" of the mission, with samples from it landing in a desert in Utah, United States, on Sunday (September 24).<\/p>\n

    And now, ahead of the possible impact, Professor Anthony Glees \u2013 an expert in international war and defence \u2013 has spoken exclusively to the Daily Star about where NASA should be taking inspiration from when trying to work out how to defend the planet against it.<\/p>\n

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    He said: \u201cI can well remember the release of two Hollywood blockbusters in 1998 \u2013 Deep Impact and Armageddon \u2013 and have seen both several times since.<\/p>\n

    \u201cWe are always told to disregard science fiction when it comes to predicting what might realistically happen to the human race, but that would be ridiculous. There is no major discovery that man has made which was not first predicted in 'fiction', whether we're talking about Colombus's discovery of America, the Eldorado of fictional works that preceded it, or Jules Verne's predictions of travel to the Moon, deep under the oceans or indeed the centre of the earth.<\/p>\n

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