Why is NASA now interested in speaking with an Iowa State University professor who has been speaking for some time of his plan to 'save the world' in an asteroid 'doomsday' situation? In this report from the Des Moines Register released on Thursday, the same day ISON made it's perihelion with the sun, we learn that NASA will be meeting this coming Tuesday with Bong Wie about his plan to blow up an Earth threatening asteroid with a nuke. A TedX interview with Bong about his plan to save Earth is also below along with a 2nd newly released video about ISON.
A plan by an Iowa State University professor to save the planet from a meteor collision continues to streak toward reality.
The problem being puzzled over at the Asteroid Deflection Research Center in Ames would devastate humanity: an asteroid hurtling toward the planet, detected too late to be able to use other means to knock it off its collision course with Earth. In this scenario, breaking up the rock with a nuclear device would be the last and best hope, according to ISU engineering professor Bong Wie.
Wie is scheduled to meet Tuesday with NASA officials in Washington, D.C., to talk about his team’s research.
Unfortunately for us, if the remnants of ISON should come crashing to the Earth, it may be too late as the project would take over 10 years for completion we learn; why is NASA in a rush now?
The project would take more than a decade, which Wie said is all the more reason to start work now.
“I will find out (Tuesday), whether it’s a ridiculous idea or if NASA will take it seriously,” Wie said.
“But I have no doubt that now is the time to think about it, because it would take three or four years to be able to have a technically sound plan.”
“It’s kind of cool. It makes you think you’re almost the guardian of the planet from celestial bodies."
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