I want to talk about perspective. So here’s a little story with moral at end…I watched a video this week, film was 'Deep Impact'. It's about an asteroid on a collision path with Earth, and our efforts to avert disaster.
If it hit, it would make a, wait for it, deep impact! You've got to hand to those Hollywood types, haven't you!
It came out in 1998, same year as 'Armageddon', a film about an asteroid on a collision path with Earth, and our efforts...well you know rest.
I like both films, it's tough to choose between them.
'Armageddon' does have Liv Tyler, and fantastic Diane Warren song by Aerosmith, 'I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing'.
On other hand, 'Deep Impact' has Tea Leoni, who could focus my telescope any day of week.
If you haven't seen films, look away now, because. in 'Armageddon' they stop asteroid, but in 'Deep Impact' they don't.
Ok, you can look back now. Hhhm, not sure that works.
Back to real life, and in fact, in outer reaches of our universe, they have spotted a little critter of an asteroid, which seems to be heading our way. It's a few hundred years away, but plans have already been investigated as to what to do.
Landing on it? Er, I don't think so.
Nuking it from Earth? Well that's a good idea, until they found that asteroids can either be hard or soft, and there is no way of telling which type they are.