This is a test. This is ONLY a test!

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Tommorow, at 7:14 PM, the DART mission spacecraft will impact a near earth asteroid - Defending the Earth, Defending Humanity!

NYT, No Paywall

https://dart.jhuapl.edu/

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. the knowledge gained is critical.

Future genations will appreciate that science was emplyed to help understand redirectional capababity of Earth to deflect catasrophic events.

[Walleye]

2. May we live long and prosper🖖

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5. +10 nt

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3. Yikes. What if this collision throws the whole...

Earth, moon, Mars, Venus, solar system time/space continuum off balance, throwing the Milky Way onto a collision course with Andromeda, our nearest galactic neighbor?

I can't deal with this right now. I'm going back to bed.

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6. LOL - Anxiety Overload!

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8. Totally.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. How long will we survive after impact? Our Evil Alien Overlords will not like this impudent act.

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7. +10 nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. KICK

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10. A few minutes to impact!

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11. Thanks for the live feed. NASA's page has too much other stuff going on.

[crickets]

12. Thanks for this feed! I missed it earlier and

appreciate being able to come back and watch it. Neat asteroid.

When will we know how much DART changed the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos?
https://www.space.com/dart-asteroid-impact-when-well-know

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13. I have read that it will take a few days...

... I would have thought it would take longer than that.