If a Humanity-Ending Asteroid Heads Our Way, Will Anyone Believe Scientists?

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If a Humanity-Ending Asteroid Heads Our Way, Will Anyone Believe Scientists?
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The scientists’ denial in Don’t Look Up is as tragic as that of the public they are trying to reach.

has made me seriously question that. No one in the film grasps what must be done, the astronomers included. Like anyone watching this movie, I rooted for the astronomers trying to save the world and booed the talking heads and other idiots who couldn’t see the danger. But as a scientist, too, I also found myself shaking my head and asking: Are we just as unteachable?

Scientists are expertly trained to imagine and quantify what might have happened in the past and how the future might unfold, and to plan accordingly. As depicted in the movie, there really is aat NASA that plans and sponsors telescope surveys in Hawaii, Arizona, and around the world. Its congressional mandate is to find at least 90 percent of the estimated 25,000 near-Earth asteroids at least 140 meters in size .

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