{"id":3927536,"date":"2026-08-18T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/nuking-an-asteroid-on-short-notice-could-save-us\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T07:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:00:36","slug":"nuking-an-asteroid-on-short-notice-could-save-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/nuking-an-asteroid-on-short-notice-could-save-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuking an asteroid on short notice could save us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Readers of a certain age will remember a golden era of asteroid films, capped by two with very different endings. &#8220;Deep Impact&#8221; drove home the devastating consequences of letting a large piece of rock hit our planet, whereas &#8220;Armageddon,&#8221; though arguably the kitschier of the two films, was an uplifting story about technical ingenuity and sacrifice.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-nuking-asteroid-short.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of a certain age will remember a golden era of asteroid films, capped by two with very different endings. &#8220;Deep Impact&#8221; drove home the devastating consequences of letting a large piece of rock hit our planet, whereas &#8220;Armageddon,&#8221; though arguably the kitschier of the two films, was an uplifting story about technical ingenuity and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}