{"id":130988,"date":"2021-11-20T23:23:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T07:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/calls-grow-for-us-to-bolster-defense-against-asteroid-threat"},"modified":"2021-11-20T23:23:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T07:23:25","slug":"calls-grow-for-us-to-bolster-defense-against-asteroid-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/calls-grow-for-us-to-bolster-defense-against-asteroid-threat","title":{"rendered":"Calls grow for US to bolster defense against asteroid threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/calls-grow-for-us-to-bolster-defense-against-asteroid-threat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experts are sounding the alarm about the threat of asteroids to life on Earth \u2014 and warning that the United States does not have a clear plan to prevent catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>Though NASA says the odds are literally one in a millennium, no US agency is explicitly responsible if space rocks are headed our way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is tasked with mitigation,\u201d former Air Force space strategist Peter Garretson, an expert in planetary defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/11\/20\/global-planetary-defense-earth-asteroids-523072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told Politico<\/a>. \u201cCongress did put in law that the White House identify who should be responsible, but fully four subsequent administrations so far have blown off their request.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts are sounding the alarm about the threat of asteroids to life on Earth \u2014 and warning that the United States does not have a clear plan to prevent catastrophe. Though NASA says the odds are literally one in a millennium, no US agency is explicitly responsible if space rocks are headed our way. \u201cNo [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12,1490,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks","category-government","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}