asteroids
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Experiment Could Help Scientists Predict Avalanches Through Sound
It turns out that 8000 tiny plastic disks in a rotating drum could help scientists develop a technique to forecast avalanches or earthquakes through sound.
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Asteroids Really Could Have Brought Water To Earth, Experiment With Giant Rock Blaster Shows
You may have heard the theory that asteroids are responsible for Earth’s water. You may also have thought, hah, there’s no way that asteroids could have brought all that water to Earth. But fake asteroid impacts are now demonstrating that, yeah, maybe they did.
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Instead Of Nuking An Asteroid Headed Toward Earth, We Could Just Splash It With Paint
Recent headlines have contained a lot of asteroid-nuking talk. There’s a team of Russian scientists zapping mini asteroids in their lab, and supposedly NASA is thinking about a plan that would hypothetically involve nuking Bennu should it threaten Earth in 2135.
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There’s Only The Tiniest Chance That Musk’s Tesla Will Crash Back To Earth, But We’ll Take It
By now it’s old news – somewhere in space, there’s a red Tesla Roadster with a spacesuit-wearing dummy in the passenger’s seat. It probably doesn’t drive any more, and NASA has officially listed it as a celestial object.