The Chinese Communist Party is bad, bad news, no doubts there. But if they pull this off, I mean...we can all agree it'd be pretty cool at least, right?
China's space agency plans to send a spacecraft to slam into an asteroid, knocking it into a new — and hopefully safer — orbit. The prospective new mission will launch within the next four years, and was announced on Sunday by Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the China National Space Administration, according to Global Times, a state-run news outlet.
The country hasn't yet determined which asteroid to target. The mission was announced as one part of a larger new planetary defense effort, which will seek to catalog and monitor near-Earth asteroids, especially those that might pose a threat to our planet. The effort would include a new warning system as well. Eventually, the plan is to identify an asteroid that might threaten Earth, and send a spacecraft to crash into it, changing its orbit in the process. But it is still very early days, and the overall project has not been formally approved yet — it is "being reviewed for approval," Global Times reports.
Well, hurry up and approve it, communists! Okay, look, honestly, we all feel the same way—none of us wants any part of this:
Like, at all. In any way. No Thanks.
But if it's a choice between that and this...
Ehhh...
Honestly I'm not sure which one I'd choose. I'll have to think it over (especially given the commies' track record on efficiency and success).
Still, though, it's a great idea and it'll be exciting to see what happens.
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