NASA is preparing to outfit asteroids with robot powered guidance systems in an effort to save the Earth from an Armageddon style killer space rock.
The project, Reconstituting Asteroids into Mechanical Automata (RAMA), aims to use a series of simple robotic processes to turn space rocks into basic flying spacecraft that can be used as a planetary defense system.
Once complete, these roboticized space rocks can be
to prevent them from slamming into the Earth, James Dunn, co-founder of Made in Space, a space-manufacturing company told the Daily Mail.
After colliding with the killer asteroid, the robotized space rocks would be parked in a safe location or set on a course to fly safely out of the solar system.
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