RE: NASA's Late Asteroid Announcement (asteroid 2020 GH2 (NEO); Will NASA Ever be Prepared for a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid?
Hello friend @gbenga
This is a disturbing publication, perhaps because one is focused on solving things of the earth, of the day to day life as ordinary citizens, we do not realize those other dangers that are, without a doubt, real.
Something that particularly I do not explain, how is this that more than 30 years ago man reached the moon and now with a much more developed degree of technology can not foresee in advance that a large meteorite is approaching the earth's surface? These are things that make you think, I do not suggest with this that they should send the astronauts to circulate the universe in search of potential threats, but if there are doubts about certain things.
I think we're just a point in space, not more. And it's verifiable when an object like a steroid could wipe us out in a matter of seconds, just as other planets or stars have done at other times. I don't even want to imagine it.
Artificial intelligence has had great advances in recent years, I think it could be a solution to this problem that arises.
I also believe that the economic limitation in these projects is great. The costs are very high.
One thing that amazes me is the fact that the trip to moon that was believed to be an open door to greater space explorations have now become a mission impossible with the technology available currently.
I also understand that one of the greatest challenge for the space industry is funds but at the same time spending $10 billion on James Webb space Telescope is enough to get it running which will make it work perfectly.
There's a theory about the moon trip. It's that it didn't really happen. That at that time the first people to put a satellite in space were the Russians, and the Americans didn't want to be left behind, so they put on a whole show about the *moon trip. Maybe that could explain why they haven't sent anyone back, because logic says that everything has evolved, it should be easier to get back on the moon...
These are theories.