In September 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft deliberately collided with a small moonlet, Dimorphos more than 7 million miles away from earth. It successfully changed its trajectory, and proved that we can use this approach to deal with future threatening asteroids. It's a marvel of modern science, but it's also a fantastic analogy for what businesses need to be doing with "worst case scenario" thinking.
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* DART program: https://dart.jhuapl.edu/
* Livestream of DART Mission: https://www.youtube.com/live/4RA8Tfa6Sck
* Planetary Defense Coordination Office: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Defense_Coordination_Office
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