[HN Gopher] 'Don't Look Up': humanity could avert asteroid Armag...
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       'Don't Look Up': humanity could avert asteroid Armageddon, say
       scientists
        
       Author : unklefolk
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2022-01-27 21:15 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | jfengel wrote:
       | In what sense is this article new, aside from tagging it with the
       | name of a recent movie (which isn't really about asteroids at
       | all, but an allegory about climate change). We know all that; the
       | DART mission is already on its way to go test the theory.
       | 
       | I get the impression that they're doing _something_ novel here;
       | there 's something about "bolide fragmentation". But that takes
       | up about half a sentence in the abstract; everything else seems
       | to be telling us what we already knew about the dangers of
       | asteroids.
       | 
       | Can somebody give me a better abstract of their paper?
        
       | Comevius wrote:
       | In the movie humanity was technologically capable destroying the
       | comet, the solution just got jammed between politics, the media
       | and corporate idiocracy.
       | 
       | Our tepid response to another existential threat called the
       | climate crisis suggests that this may be our reality.
        
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