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RE: [Popular STEM] Curating the Internet: STEM digest for May 1, 2021

in Popular STEM4 years ago

In a NASA simulation of an asteroid impact, scientists concluded they couldn't stop a space rock from decimating Europe.

  1. Earth orbits the sun in one year, hence the seasons of mild to stormy weather. Similarly, our solar system orbits the milky-way galaxy once about every 240 million years. Hence, the fluctuation of risk and exposure is probably seasonable within that 240 millions, but inevitable--not just to Kyper-belt asteroida, but to gravitational forces we can't even dream, or nightmare, about.

  2. NASA may convert the simulation into a game and release it. I think there are gamers out there who would win and deflect the asteroids hitting Earth.

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 4 years ago 

NASA may convert the simulation into a game and release it. I think there are gamers out there who would win and deflect the asteroids hitting Earth.

That's a cool idea. And I bet you're right that there are gamers who would manage to do it.

Maybe they could make it into a challenge and competition for AI systems, too.

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