Watch the full episode with Drew Brophy here: https://youtu.be/nweuPcZvMOA
An asteroid crossed Earth’s orbit just fifteen minutes before the planet arrived at that same point in space. As David Levy pointed out, impact events encompass every other natural disaster we know of, yet they are the one category we could actually do something about. The DART mission proved we have the basic technology to nudge an incoming object off course. The question is whether we choose to invest in planetary defense or keep spending that energy on wars.