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How to defend Earth from asteroids

Phil Plait · TED

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About

What's six miles wide and can end civilization in an instant? An asteroid -- and there are lots of them out there. With humor and great visuals, Phil Plait shows us all the ways asteroids can kill us (yipes), and what we must do to avoid them.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxBoulder 2011
Speaker
Phil Plait
Year
2011
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Astronomy and space
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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