So We Can’t Just Blow Up Asteroids, Then?

The Most Important Question · Dec 7, 2021 · 1h 5m

Yes, we all know that the 1998 Michael Bay flick Armageddon is a masterpiece of cinema, but two years ago we asked ourselves this question: How much does it actually hold up as a blueprint for preventing planetary destruction?

Let’s say it doesn’t: What can we do to keep from going the way of the dinosaurs?

Nobody was better suited to answer our many questions than Professor K.T. Ramesh. He told us about a future test mission called DART. Armed with a spacecraft the size of a golf cart, it could have potential to save humanity.

Two years later, DART has launched, and we thought it was a hell…