Disaster Planning for Cosmic Impacts: Progress and Weaknesses

Treating Outer Space Like a Place: A Case for Rejecting Other Domain Analogies

“…Humanity has a clear, definite collective interest in preparing for the detection and diversion of collision scenarios: "An asteroid or comet is the only natural disaster that can wipe out human society and the only natural disaster that human society can prevent." 65 And because the development and deployment of deflection techniques requires a long lead-time, starting now is imperative to avoid the risk of asteroid collision. 66 Continued reliance on analogies will not effectively account for this threat.…”