Social media encourages outlandish posts to get attention, it's a terrible situation as it lands on everything.<p>The paying for a diversion mission thing is interesting, although I suspect nations with an interest would do it regardless of the asteroid's destination, those nations aren't historically penny pinchers when comes to expanding their self defense capabilities.
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