NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash
NPR Online NewsJUL 2023
The Spin
Narrative A
If an asteroid were to become an actual threat to life on Earth, it's important to detect them years in advance. More study, observations, and technological advancements for deflection are needed — this can't be a last-minute endeavor.
Narrative B
This is yet another headline where publications take the technical terms used by scientists and blow them out of proportion for clicks. In reality, anything as far out as 85% of the way to Mars could be considered "near-Earth." There are no cosmic worries in this story.
Metaculus Prediction
There's a 3% chance that space debris will kill a human on earth by 2025, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
