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Illustration
of a hypothetical political dilemma. If we discover that an asteroid
will hit Earth at the yellow “X”, technology allows us to deflect the
asteroid and move the impact point either way along the red
line.
If
all goes well, we will move the X completely off Earth’s surface. But
if we are only marginally successful, we will only have changed the
disaster location.
Should
we try to move X to the right, or to the left? Who gets to decide?
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