{"id":9941,"date":"2019-07-05T15:12:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T22:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9941"},"modified":"2019-07-07T13:14:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T20:14:49","slug":"theyre-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/05\/theyre-real\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re Real"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-asteroid-peril-isnt-science-fiction-11562339356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from The Wall Street Journal (opens in a new tab)\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<h1>The Asteroid Peril Isn\u2019t Science Fiction<\/h1>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Even if we managed to spot a small but dangerous asteroid heading for Earth, we currently have no means to stop it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Gordon L. Dillow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3YZufKcOJfc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May, a group of international scientists assembled near Washington, D.C., to tackle an alarming problem: what to do about an asteroid hurtling toward Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Astronomers at a mountaintop observatory in Hawaii had spotted an 800-foot-wide asteroid, dubbed 2019 PDC, when it was 35 million miles away. By asteroid standards, it was relatively small\u2014not even close to the six-mile-wide piece of space rock believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Still, this asteroid was traveling at 31,000 miles an hour&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-asteroid-peril-isnt-science-fiction-11562339356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at WSJ (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal The Asteroid Peril Isn\u2019t Science Fiction Even if we managed to spot a small but dangerous asteroid heading for Earth, we currently have no means to stop it Gordon L. Dillow In May, a group of international scientists assembled near Washington, D.C., to tackle an alarming problem: what to do [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941","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=9941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}