{"id":5224,"date":"2023-03-08T13:47:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T13:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=5224"},"modified":"2023-03-08T13:47:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T13:47:51","slug":"the-era-of-planetary-defense-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/08\/the-era-of-planetary-defense-has-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Era of Planetary Defense Has Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A very happy point \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In <em>Modern Principles of Economics<\/em>, Tyler and I use asteroid defense as an example of a public good (see video below). As of the 5th edition, this public good wasn\u2019t being provided by either markets or governments. But thanks to NASA, the era of planetary defense has begun. In September of 2022 NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. A new set of five papers in Nature has now demonstrated that not only did NASA hit its target, the mission was a success in diverting the asteroid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2023\/03\/the-era-of-planetary-defense-has-begun.html\">https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2023\/03\/the-era-of-planetary-defense-has-begun.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very happy point \ud83d\ude42 In Modern Principles of Economics, Tyler and I use asteroid defense as an example of a public good (see video below). As of the 5th edition, this public good wasn\u2019t being provided by either markets or governments. But thanks to NASA, the era of planetary defense has begun. In September [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1mg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5225,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions\/5225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}