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Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm
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Well, it is still better to get hit with a dozen Hiroshima-nuke-scale impacts than a single dinosaur-killer-scale impact.
Statistically, the majority of them should hit ocean anyway.