{"id":53089,"date":"2022-09-27T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53089"},"modified":"2022-09-27T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T14:12:00","slug":"life-imitates-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53089","title":{"rendered":"Life imitates art?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Life is imitating art at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which could be a very good thing for Planet Earth if the need ever arises to do this again … for real.<\/p>\n

I mean, they’ve made movies about this stuff!<\/p>\n

NASA crashed a DART rocket into a 500-foot-diameter asteroid millions of miles from Earth last night. As NASA administrator Bill Nelson noted, for a small spacecraft to hit such a small target so far away, well, that’s “pretty good shootin’.”<\/p>\n

NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid \u2013 photos show the last moments of the successful DART mission (yahoo.com)<\/a><\/p>\n

Indeed, NASA wanted to hit the rock to test its ability to fend off a potentially cataclysmic collision if they ever detect a large asteroid heading straight for Earth. The mission was successful. It might have been the first time in space agency history when folks cheered<\/em> the instant they lost telemetry from a spacecraft.<\/p>\n

The spacecraft hit the asteroid traveling at a speed of 14,000 mph.<\/p>\n

Now comes the question: Will NASA be able to develop a large enough space vehicle to knock an asteroid off a collision course with Earth in time to avoid Doomsday?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Get busy, NASA.<\/p>\n

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Life is imitating art at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which could be a very good thing for Planet Earth if the need ever arises to do this again … for real. I mean, they’ve made movies about this stuff! NASA crashed a DART rocket into a 500-foot-diameter asteroid millions of miles from Earth … Continue reading Life imitates art?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8386],"tags":[10014,3182,4306],"class_list":["post-53089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-science-news","tag-asteroid","tag-nasa","tag-solar-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53091,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53089\/revisions\/53091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}