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Forget 4/20. This year it’s all about 4/22 (aka “Earth Day”). “The good thing about Earth Day is that environmental activism can be dismal in a way, but it’s a good time to celebrate the earth, it’s fun. It’s not ‘the end is near’ kind of deal,” Earth Day Committee Co-Chair Deborah W. Kuhn ’09 says of the holiday founded in 1970 to celebrate and protect the planet...
...private schooling. Yet, there are also many members who fall into socioeconomic brackets closer to the middle. Many final clubs provide financial aid for members who qualify. Furthermore, it is hasty to write off all club members as spoiled boys—many of them are as down-to-earth as their non-club counterparts. One final club president told me recently that he plans for his club to undertake community service projects this year...
...What’s different from a century ago is that we now have the ability to spot many of the 20,000 or so dangerous NEOs long before they approach earth. Of course, we’ll only spot them if we’re looking for them. But in a report it previewed Monday, NASA declined to allocate any additional funds from its $17 billion annual budget for this task...
...course, what exactly to do about a Harvard Square-sized boulder bearing down on earth is an entirely different challenge. Currently, there are several hypothetical options, which fall into two broad categories. One, give the asteroid a very gentle nudge away from the earth. This could be accomplished either with a tiny rocket attached to the side of the asteroid or by a minute gravitational tug from a nearby spaceship. Two, detonate a nuclear bomb next to the asteroid, vaporizing one side of it, and sending it careening in another direction. Either option requires a good deal of advance notice...
...dangerous asteroids in the next few decades, but comets are more troublesome, since they come shooting from the dark reaches of the outer solar system. We’d have substantially less warning—a few years, maybe months—about a comet on track for earth...