Video: SUPER WHITE SCIENCE: NASA’s most useful mission to the future of our race – NASA spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid – My Comments

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[I've been fascinated by this and even diarised this date so I'd not miss the event. As I've dug into history including ancient history and my own interest in science, I must tell you, that rocks falling on to earth is the greatest danger we face. It's not an immediate danger, but it relates to the future, and it can happen at any moment. I'll post a video of a rock that smacked Earth just a few years ago so you'll see how utterly freaky this is. A rock smacked into the atmosphere above Russia and it was freaking wild. It was filmed. And as these things get bigger, they could wipe out life. Life on this planet has been wiped out several times. Only our race has the brains and ability to even think up possible solutions. And that DART mission was it. There are many theories about how could humans stop enormous rocks from smacking into the earth. So the decision was to try and do some real tests. There are many theories, but the simplest is a direct impact of even something small, because if you hit the rock at the right angle you can change it's orbit. Of course this opens up a whole new world. We might be able to start doing seriously insane math and begin making bigger things move. I am not going to go into this. The possibilities of this are endless. I think. though nobody has said much about it. But for survival purposes, what can happen is that you hit an asteroid, even a big one and a tiny hit at the right point will make it miss the earth. And depending on the options you could do many things to it when you hit it. You could even calculate the distant future and the result of it. This physical impact is a brilliant idea. And it was tested the other day. A NASA spacecraft smacked into an asteroid at 14,000 MPH. Within a few days scientists will begin being able to measure how much they deflected this asteroid's orbit. If there is one thing that could save us in the future it is this technology. This is amazing stuff. But I suspect it has endless, endless possibilities. Jan]

Here’s a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NYUQebieCI