{"id":565,"date":"2010-08-22T21:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T11:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=565"},"modified":"2010-08-19T21:32:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T11:32:05","slug":"russia-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2010\/08\/russia-asteroids-565.html","title":{"rendered":"Russia Will Save Us From Asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"

While other countries um and ah, Russia has bold plans. They are proposing a global monitoring system that some say could cost $300 billion. Obviously the US would rather spend that on a few months of war… Whether it is feasible or not, the land of super-bunkers deserves praise for even suggesting that such defence systems are necessary.<\/p>\n

A large asteroid hitting the Earth could mean the worst natural disaster in millions of years \u2013 and threaten most forms of life.<\/p>\n

\u201cA giant tsunami wave will rise, submerging coastal cities. If a meteor hits land, a massive dust cloud will rise, and cause severe climate change,\u201d Director of the Space Systems Research Centre, Valery Menshikov explains.<\/p>\n

As a leading space engineer, Menshikov believes we have to do anything it takes to make sure this never happens.<\/p>\n

His team has developed IGMASS, a groundbreaking network of satellites and telescopes on different continents. The system would give advance warning of anything from space on course for a collision, meaning that action could be taken to save the Earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to radically increase the number of monitoring devices. If we spot an asteroid, we will need to blow it up or, more effectively, divert it from its course. We must act before it is too late,\u201d the engineer says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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While other countries um and ah, Russia has bold plans. They are proposing a global monitoring system that some say could cost $300 billion. Obviously the US would rather spend that on a few months of war… Whether it is feasible or not, the land of super-bunkers deserves praise for even suggesting that such defence systems are necessary.
\nA large asteroid hitting the Earth could mean the worst natural disaster in millions of years \u2013 and threaten most forms of life.
\n\u201cA giant tsunami wave will rise, submerging coastal cities. If a meteor hits land, a massive dust cloud will rise, and cause severe climate change,\u201d Director of the Space Systems Research Centre, Valery Menshikov explains.
\nAs a leading space engineer, Menshikov believes we have to do anything it takes to make sure this never happens.
\nHis team has developed IGMASS, a groundbreaking network of satellites and telescopes on different continents. The system would …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}