Asteroid impact 2028: Protecting our planet
It’s the year 2028, and we’ve been carefully monitoring a worrying situation: an enormous asteroid is en route to strike Earth, although the exact point of impact is not yet clear.
National governments are planning to evacuate millions of people, an undertaking that will cause untold human misery and disruption on a gigantic scale. If the asteroid’s impact zone can be fixed, perhaps such chaos can be avoided.
As precious hours pass, find out how our Planetary Defence Office is able to obtain crucial information on this potential disaster as part of the Agency’s Space Safety and Security activities.
Back to the present day: Find out more about how we are preparing to protect our pale blue dot, its inhabitants and the vital satellite systems on which we have become so dependent.
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In the hypothetical impact scenario presented in the video, the asteroid is forecast to hit in the Pacific not near any inhabited islands. While we're not oceanography experts, we surmised that for this fictional video, a watery impact would be the least threatening.
There are Tsunami warning systems operated by a number of Asia-Pacific countries, and, knowing in advance where the asteroid would hit would allow these civil warning systems to do their job.
all good, until the enormous tsunami that was created by this impact, wipes out millions of people, and takes out costal cities!
I'm glad I'm on the opposite side of the earth
why they create a web site and create a simulation that anyone can participate in thinking how to deal with astroids. no one knows maybe a poor country that doesnt have a technology could have the answer for that problem concerning the danger that about to come.peace
What are you doing to protect us? All you did was see where the asteroid was going to hit then say, 'no evacuation's needed' what about the tsunami?.
Umm, so what about the tsunamis afterwards?
The show space 1999 back in the 70's had more idea about this than these professionals lol
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oh no…
stop watch this video at 044…
videocamera is too much move move shake shake…
bad blur blur focus
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