The Russian government has confirmed that it was formulating big plans to prevent a large asteroid known as Apophis from colliding with the Earth in the coming year 2036.
"A scientist recently said something interesting about the course of an asteroid approaching Earth constantly," Roscosmos head Anatoly Perminov explained in a statement cited by RIA Novosti.
"He has calculated that the asteroid will surely collide with Earth in the 2030s."
However, Perminov stressed that the Kremlin is not planning a nuclear strike against the dangerous asteroids.
"There will be no nuclear explosions later, everything will be done based on the laws of physics."
He added that Russia could eventually invite astronomers from the U.S., Europe and China to participate in the new project begins.
"People's lives will be at stake. We should pay several hundred million dollars and design a system that will prevent a collision, rather than sit and wait for it to happen and kill hundreds of thousands of lives."
However, it should be noted that the forecast was terrible Perminov seems to contradict the statement recently published by NASA underestimate the possibility of a collision between Earth and Apophis.
Hopefully this plan was so successful that the Russian government money spent will actually be useful later to save human life in our beloved earth.
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