You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

We need early warning systems, technologies to deflect an asteroid - and we need political preparedness as well. It needs to be clear who is to decide what, who launches the rockets, who presents which bills to its citizens. This is a planetary decision. We need to do this all together. Or it will not happen.

It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

Anytime we can save lives or prevent the destruction of property, we should do it.

We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or.

In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids.