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NASA aims to destroy an Empire State Building-sized asteroid
(interestingengineering.com)
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That's 150 years away, nobody's going to do shit until 2181, and then the whole world will freak out saying "why hasn't anyone done anything yet!?"
References: climate change, housing collapse in Western countries.
In 120 years, people will likely have a better idea of what the trajectory of Bennu will be. No one currently alive needs to do anything at all about this. This is a science experiment for our lifetimes.
It's still good that they monitor and investigate stuff like this ahead of time. NASA, historically, has allowed for a ton of really cool practical advanced in technology to occur because of research they do on stuff like this, and I think it's entirely worth it to work on this kind of stuff even if we never have to actually shoot it down.
And yet, the article is about how they're doing things already to prepare for the next appropriate action.
I too saw Don't Look Up.
In 150 years industrial society won't even exist anymore. If we're very lucky humans still might be around and the planet doesn't look like Venus, but I wouldn't bet on that