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Smart Planet videos of the week: How to protect Earth from an asteroid strike

By | August 19, 2011, 1:22pm PDT

Summary: Former astronaut and physicist Ed Lu discusses the need to develop an early-warning and precision tracking/guidance system to prevent asteroids from hitting the planet.

Here’s the week in Smart Planet video.

At TEDxNASA in San Francisco, former astronaut and physicist Ed Lu discusses the need to develop an early-warning and precision tracking/guidance system to prevent asteroids from hitting the planet.

Also at TEDxNASA, Bilal Bomani, a senior scientist with NASA’s biofuels program, discusses the space agency’s study of algae and halophytes as the next generation of aviation fuel.

And kids learn mobile app creation at summer camp.

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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic.

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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.

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Look at the news - no, really look at the news and then ask yourself "are we worth saving"?

I say we just let an astorid hit and see if the Apes can do a better job in the future.
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Having seen the funding success of the AGW scare, now running out of steam, they need a new scare to get more funding from taxpayers.

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