Hopefully, the Gods of Irony Are Sleeping
A European Space Agency mission, named Don Quijote, might practice
deflecting asteroids.
Geez, does anyone else think that the result of the mission might be akin to a break in billiards, where a bunch of things go flying off in all directions, making previously not dangerous Near Earth Objects into killers?
I mean, they did name it
Don Quijote, for crying out loud. Also, they have an aging population which weighs upon their economies that cries out for a radical solution.