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Ten richest men more than doubles, climbing a collective $1.3 billion per day. central banks pumped trillions of dollars into financial markets to save the economy. that set off a stock market boom lining the pockets of billionaires. oxfam said its not by chance, its by choice and governments should tax those gains and use the money to fund health care, vaccines and to address the climate crisis. >> that is revealing. all right, christine, get ready for this. an asteroid nearly missing the ear...

Hit. cnns tyler malden is here to show us. all right, tyler, were told it will not hit. help us calm down about this. >> yeah, youre right, guys. its not going to hit us. everyone can calm down. asteroid 2k 22 continues t-minus 11 hours until it makes that close approach to earth. again, you dont have to worry about it, but if you do have a small telescope, you can peek this asteroid as it passes by earth. this is the closest its been to earth since 1933, and its not going to be this close until...

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Momentum of the pushed-off stuff would push the asteroid. that may work. but even simpler and more straightforward is just hitting the asteroid with something very small but going very, very fast. dart, double asteroid redirection test, is going about four miles a second. four miles a second. >> wow. >> so it has a lot of momentum. so when we hit this smaller asteroid, we are very hopeful that it will give it a nudge. now, the composition of the asteroids is not exactly known. so theyre so-calle...

So this didamos binary asteroid, ditamos and bimorphous, if youre into happy naming, is an asteroid where you have an asteroid that has a wide center like this double strawberry and then you have another asteroid going around it like the blueberry. so if you can hit the blueberry with a spacecraft, like these strawberry leaves, then you can slow this smaller asteroid down ever so slightly, ever so slightly, and then when an object is closer to the -- when a smaller object is closer to the larger...

The collision and send them back to earth. they will use telescopes to observe how much the impact changed the astroids trajectory in space. the point is to add this diversion method to keep astroids out of earths orbit. to quote nasas defense planetary officer linda johnson, the right time to deflect an asteroid is as far away from the earth as we can. who better to talk than bill nye, ceo of the planetary society, also known as the science guy. great to see you tonight in an area of deep exper...

And this will prove or disprove the hypothesis that this so-called kinetic impact, energy impact, could deflect an asteroid in the future and, dare i say it, save the world. >> well, you and i are of an era where we had some great science fiction shows and books. and in those they would have just blasted any asteroid that threatened earth to smithereens. we apparently dont have that technology? >> no. plus theres a few problems with that. youd have to get a large, lets say, nuclear weapon on top...

Method, this diversion method to their strategy to keep asteroids out of earths orbit. to quote masses planetary defense officer, the right time to deflect an asteroid is as far away from the earth as we can. what who better to talk than bill nye, ceo of the planetary society, also known as the science guy. bill, thanks to see. you will in an area of deep expertise for. you lets talk about. this what is the aim here that we are going to deflect asteroids had ever earth so that the misses? >> yes...

Of the smaller asteroid. and this will prove, or disprove, the hypothesis that the so-called connect the impact energy impact could deflect nash trade and the future and, dare i say, save the world. >> well you and i are of an era where we had some great science fiction shows and books. and in, those they wouldve just blasted any asteroid to threaten earth to smithereens. we apparently dont have that technology? >> no. and theres a few problems with that. you would have to get a large, lets say,...

Catastrophic. so some day in nonscience fiction fashion, were going to have to deflect one. so this didymos binary asteroid, didymos and dimorphos, if youre into happy naming, is an asteroid where you have an asteroid that has a wide center like this double strawberry and then you have another asteroid going around it like the blueberry. so if you can hit the blueberry with a spacecraft, like these strawberry leaves, then you can slow this smaller asteroid down ever so slightly, ever so slightly...