In this story, they have a 6-year warning of an asteroid with 35% chance of 700megaton impact.
I just know that with that lead time, and with such an aligning mission, humanity would be able to do amazing things.
The Apollo program was from JFKs speech in '61 to moon in '69, and that's built on a '60s technological and social infrastructure. We have tons more brainpower and tech now, globally.
This scenario would just be so politically aligning we'd be able to mobilize massive resources to stop it in that timeframe; way more than 6 launches. I'd be much more concerned about one they didn't see until 6 months out or something.
In this story, they have a 6-year warning of an asteroid with 35% chance of 700megaton impact.
I just know that with that lead time, and with such an aligning mission, humanity would be able to do amazing things.
The Apollo program was from JFKs speech in '61 to moon in '69, and that's built on a '60s technological and social infrastructure. We have tons more brainpower and tech now, globally.
This scenario would just be so politically aligning we'd be able to mobilize massive resources to stop it in that timeframe; way more than 6 launches. I'd be much more concerned about one they didn't see until 6 months out or something.