How To Stop An Asteroid (UPDATE)

Planet Money

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4.6 • 30.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Some smart people say we should be doing more to protect the Earth from asteroids. The technical issues are relatively easy. The economics — figuring out who's going to pay — are much harder. | Support our show here.

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0:00.0	Do you have economic questions rattling around in your head driving you nuts keeping you
0:08.1	awake at night?
0:09.5	You've tried shouting them out of window.
0:11.3	Why are oil prices negative?
0:14.1	But nobody answers.
0:15.9	You've tried bringing them up during pillow talk.
0:18.0	Have you ever heard of an inverted yield curve?
0:20.8	How do you have a headache?
0:23.0	Maybe another night.
0:24.0	Even Siri doesn't know what you're talking about.
0:26.2	I don't know what you're talking about.
0:27.8	I know.
0:28.8	You're ready to give up.
0:30.2	But there is hope.
0:31.6	Hello there.
0:33.1	I'm Minor Podcast celebrity Robert Smith.
0:35.8	And here at NPR we have come up with a miracle answer system.
0:39.8	It's called Planet Money.
0:41.2	It's a portable podcast that you can listen to anywhere.
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0:47.5	Our crack team will then scour the globe for economic scoops and send what we find directly
0:52.3	into your earbuds.
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