{"id":2646,"date":"2010-10-25T10:58:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T17:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/10\/theyre-coming\/"},"modified":"2010-11-13T11:01:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T18:01:57","slug":"theyre-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/25\/theyre-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re Coming."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/26\/opinion\/26schweickart.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Humans to Asteroids: Watch Out!<\/h1>\n<p style=\"width: 450px; margin-bottom: 8px\" class=\"articleSpanImage\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/10\/26\/opinion\/26schweickart\/26schweickart-articleLarge.jpg\" height=\"215\" width=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.223em; text-align: right; color: #909090; margin-bottom: 3px\" class=\"credit\">Erik T. Johnson<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 12px; font-size: 10px; color: #808080\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">By RUSSELL SCHWEICKART<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A FEW weeks ago, an asteroid almost 30 feet across and zipping along at 38,000 miles per hour\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/asteroidwatch\/newsfeatures.cfm?release=2010-332\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #00325b; text-decoration: underline\" title=\"NASA report on asteroid\">flew 28,000 miles above Singapore.<\/a>\u00a0Why, you might reasonably ask, should non-astronomy buffs care about a near miss from such a tiny rock? Well, I can give you one very good reason: asteroids don\u2019t always miss. If even a relatively little object was to strike a city, millions of people could be wiped out.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to telescopes that can see ever smaller objects at ever greater distances, we can now predict dangerous asteroid impacts decades ahead of time. We can even use current space technology and fairly simple spacecraft to alter an asteroid\u2019s orbit enough to avoid a collision. We simply need to get this detection-and-deflection program up and running.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/26\/opinion\/26schweickart.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Humans to Asteroids: Watch Out! Erik T. Johnson By RUSSELL SCHWEICKART A FEW weeks ago, an asteroid almost 30 feet across and zipping along at 38,000 miles per hour\u00a0flew 28,000 miles above Singapore.\u00a0Why, you might reasonably ask, should non-astronomy buffs care about a near miss from such a tiny rock? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}