How many times have you read a headline about our impending doom due to a “Deep Impact”-style annihilation?
In a way it’s not surprising – we have an insatiable appetite for disaster stories, a hunger Hollywood is all too keen to feed. And, in many ways, an asteroid impact is the ultimate catastrophe.
But today the not-for-profit B612 Foundation will unveil plans to build the Sentinel Space Telescope – the world’s first privately funded space telescope, designed to map the solar system for potentially dangerous asteroids.
NOTE: Bruce was in “Armageddon,” not “Deep Impact.”