Calculations Suggest Paintballs Could Divert Asteroid
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology student believes that with enough warning — as much as 20 years — a paintball-shooting spacecraft might be the best way to divert an asteroid from an extinction-level collision with Earth. Sung Wook Paek won a technical-paper competition on moving asteroids...
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