(ETH) – Looks like we don’t need another team of astronauts to save the world from an asteroid collision as we saw in the Hollywood movie “Armageddon” because according to a new report, we have a computer program that was created by a team of scientists at MIT that will allegedly help humanity decide the best way to deal with the end of the world, from a catastrophic asteroid collision.
The computer program was created because experts say there as many as two or three new asteroids, sometimes called ‘Near Earth Objects,’ discovered every night and relying on humans to catch all these is subject to failure. and according to experts “It’s inevitable that one of these asteroids will eventually end drifting into a collision course with Earth.”
‘People have mostly considered strategies of last-minute deflection, when the asteroid has already passed through a keyhole and is heading toward a collision with Earth,” Sung Wook Paek, of MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, told MIT News.
According to Daily Mail, this team designed this program to evaluate the mass, momentum, trajectory, and time before projected impact to aid humans with the high-stakes decision making involved in averting global catastrophe. If asteroids can be detected before reaching this point, they can be redirected with minor changes in course—sometimes as little as a few centimeters per second. MORE
