Today's ÜberNerds

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This is a test - this is only a test.

Had this been an actual emergency,

you would've been advised to sit down,

put your head between your knees,

and kiss your ass goodbye.

Cuz maybe this works

and maybe it doesn't.

The DART spacecraft should impact with Dimorphos,

a small asteroid orbiting the larger Didymos asteroid,

on September 26, 2022, about 7 million miles from Earth -

nowhere near close enough to harm our planet.

"Defense is great, but you do need to score points."

I think it's gonna work. I have great confidence in these folks. And once they've got Proof Of Concept, they'll tweak it so it'll be useful in a variety of scenarios.

All we have to do keep assholes like Vlad Putin from blowing everything up, so the nerds can keep the asteroids from blowing everything up.

I love it when we all work together.