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Print When Timothy VanderPloeg went to school in Ramona, he remembers being fascinated by news accounts of the space shuttle launches and classroom discussions about moon missions. And when he was asked to choose between chemistry or physics at Ramona High, he selected physics and never looked back. “I was interested in engineering in general,” said VanderPloeg, 27, who graduated from Ramona High in 2011. “I always wanted to be able to apply that to space.” In 2016 he got his bachelor�...

By big rig May 5, 2021 According to NASA, if a giant asteroid was on a collision course with Earth, wed all be pretty much done for. The agency just completed a weeklong simulation looking at various scenarios - and concluded that we wouldnt be able to stop an asteroid using current technology - even with six months of advance notice. Evacuating the impact area would be our only option - and NASA says governments are "dreadfully unprepared" for such a scenario. However, the agency is workin...

Earth is doomed if a large asteroid ever comes calling.

By big rig May 5, 2021 According to NASA, if a giant asteroid was on a collision course with Earth, wed all be pretty much done for. The agency just completed a weeklong simulation looking at various scenarios - and concluded that we wouldnt be able to stop an asteroid using current technology - even with six months of advance notice. Evacuating the impact area would be our only option - and NASA says governments are "dreadfully unprepared" for such a scenario. However, the agency is workin...

By big rig May 5, 2021 According to NASA, if a giant asteroid was on a collision course with Earth, wed all be pretty much done for. The agency just completed a weeklong simulation looking at various scenarios - and concluded that we wouldnt be able to stop an asteroid using current technology - even with six months of advance notice. Evacuating the impact area would be our only option - and NASA says governments are "dreadfully unprepared" for such a scenario. However, the agency is workin...

By big rig May 5, 2021 According to NASA, if a giant asteroid was on a collision course with Earth, wed all be pretty much done for. The agency just completed a weeklong simulation looking at various scenarios - and concluded that we wouldnt be able to stop an asteroid using current technology - even with six months of advance notice. Evacuating the impact area would be our only option - and NASA says governments are "dreadfully unprepared" for such a scenario. However, the agency is workin...

By big rig May 5, 2021 According to NASA, if a giant asteroid was on a collision course with Earth, wed all be pretty much done for. The agency just completed a weeklong simulation looking at various scenarios - and concluded that we wouldnt be able to stop an asteroid using current technology - even with six months of advance notice. Evacuating the impact area would be our only option - and NASA says governments are "dreadfully unprepared" for such a scenario. However, the agency is workin...

By big rig May 5, 2021 According to NASA, if a giant asteroid was on a collision course with Earth, wed all be pretty much done for. The agency just completed a weeklong simulation looking at various scenarios - and concluded that we wouldnt be able to stop an asteroid using current technology - even with six months of advance notice. Evacuating the impact area would be our only option - and NASA says governments are "dreadfully unprepared" for such a scenario. However, the agency is workin...

By big rig May 5, 2021 According to NASA, if a giant asteroid was on a collision course with Earth, wed all be pretty much done for. The agency just completed a weeklong simulation looking at various scenarios - and concluded that we wouldnt be able to stop an asteroid using current technology - even with six months of advance notice. Evacuating the impact area would be our only option - and NASA says governments are "dreadfully unprepared" for such a scenario. However, the agency is workin...

By big rig May 5, 2021 According to NASA, if a giant asteroid was on a collision course with Earth, wed all be pretty much done for. The agency just completed a weeklong simulation looking at various scenarios - and concluded that we wouldnt be able to stop an asteroid using current technology - even with six months of advance notice. Evacuating the impact area would be our only option - and NASA says governments are "dreadfully unprepared" for such a scenario. However, the agency is workin...