Paintball Players vs. The Asteroid Apocalypse? | Video

1,803 views · Published 26 October 2012 · 0:53 · Indexed 23 October 2026

Channel: Live Science · 2012 · Science & Technology

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MIT graduate student Sung Wook Paek thinks he can alter the collision course of an incoming asteroid by splattering it with brightly colored paint. The Sun's photons, bouncing off the now reflective surface will, slowly change the trajectory.

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