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They say no, there's too much pollution. we'll take a cab. >> reporter: despite some measures to fight smog, the increasing pollution makes the sight of a clear sky still a distant dream. okay, still to come here for us, saving the earth from armageddon. i'm not kidding. nasa is trying out some new technology to try and protect the earth from potentially devastating asteroid impacts. you'll want to see this.
NASA may one day need to save Earth from an incoming asteroid. The plan: launching a spacecraft to nudge away space rocks.
NASA has led seven such simulations, and the participants only fully stopped the asteroid once. It shows how challenging it would be to stop an Earth-bound space rock, even with ample warning. An international group of space experts have been bested by a hypothetical asteroid. Again. In a planetary-defense simulation that NASA led last month, more than 200 participants from about two dozen countries learned that a fictitious space rock was set to strike Earth in six months. They put their heads together to investigate every possible way to avoid the impact. But in the end, the group determine...
With each passing day of the exercise, the participants learned more about the asteroid's size, trajectory, and chance of impact. Then they had to cooperate and use their technological knowledge to see if anything could be done to stop the space rock. The experts fell short. The group determined that none of Earth's existing technologies could stop the hypothetical asteroid from striking given the six-month timeframe of the simulation. In this alternate reality, the asteroid crashed into eastern Europe. As far as we know, no asteroids currently pose a threat to Earth in this way. But an estim...
Myhrvold was the long-time chief technology officer at microsoft, trained in physics by stephen hawking, and is a true polymath with interests ranging from physics to food and everything in between. he and his team at intellectual ventures have been working on everything from nuclear power to stopping asteroids from hitting the earth. it's commonly believed that asteroids wiped out the dinosaurs. but myhrvold says asteroid impacts are not just ancient history. take a listen. >> you don't think we pay enough attention to the problem of asteroids. >> so in 1908 an asteroid hit in siberia. it dev...