We are not slaves to fate. Fate is our slave.
one fucking word people...
INCOMING!This was the first success of the Spaceguard program. We saw 2008 TC3 coming. For the first time EVER we saw it coming before it hit us. It was small and exploded before it hit the ground (with a yield roughly that of a 1-2Kt nuke)
Remember this in 50 years when we stick a gigaton nuke to a rocket and send it on a deflection mission to save millions of lives. We're going to have to do it one day and this was a very important first step.
As always, the future is looking better all the time.