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Will asteroids become a new weapon of international terror diplomacy?
A newly discovered asteroid is on its way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esk1hg2knno
Predicted to have a 1% impact probability in 2032, with an earlier encounter in 2028, and with a potential impact zone being a narrow but long strip around the equatorial zone spanning from South America, over Africa and to India.
Impact probability will become more accurate the nearer the impact date comes.
A successor to the DART mission could effectively shift the impact location along that narrow strip, and if possible, move its impact point into the ocean, or if not possible, force a global trolley problem, where you now have to choose which country it would crash into.
Supposing that by 2028 the impact is determined to be certain, and the impact area narrowed down to a singular country, or if it takes longer to determine it, and the Rapist-in-Chief has not vacated office by 2032, would he launch a successor to the DART mission while threatening potentially affected countries with redirecting the asteroid to their territories to extort concessions from them?
Would other players, like China, Russia, Japan, or the EU, launch their own mission to intercept DART 2, leading to the world’s first instance of space combat?
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