{"id":611475,"date":"2019-04-25T12:30:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=51f61ddd57e1b85bd3774fd0ebe0ec1c"},"modified":"2019-04-25T12:30:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:30:01","slug":"nuclear-weapons-might-save-the-world-from-an-asteroid-strike-but-we-need-to-change-the-law-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=611475","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear weapons might save the world from an asteroid strike \u2013 but we need to change the law first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The schlocky 1998 Bruce Willis movie Armageddon was the highest grossing film of that year. The blockbuster saw a master oil driller (Willis) and an unlikely crew of misfits place a nuclear bomb inside a giant asteroid heading for Earth, blow it up \u2013 and save humanity. Armageddon isn&#8217;t exactly a documentary: it&#8217;s packed full of sci-fi nonsense. But, 20 years on, its basic plot \u2013 of using a nuclear explosion to avert a cataclysmic asteroid collision \u2013 doesn&#8217;t seem quite as silly as it did at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The schlocky 1998 Bruce Willis movie Armageddon was the highest grossing film of that year. The blockbuster saw a master oil driller (Willis) and an unlikely crew of misfits place a nuclear bomb inside a giant asteroid heading for Earth, blow it up \u2013 a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3230,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611476,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611475\/revisions\/611476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}