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China Hopes to Redirect a Nearby Asteroid Within the Next Four Years

By Thomas A. Smith

The global effort to protect Earth from dangerous asteroids is set to become stronger, as China has announced its intentions to test an asteroid redirect system as early as 2025.

via gizmodo.com

Maybe China could pick an asteroid that is going to miss Earth by a whole lot. That way, there’d be no danger of nudging it in the wrong direction and well, you know. We wouldn’t want to pull a Covid, so to speak.