Chapter 665 of the text The conclusion of the investigation of the people of the United States

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"Three months have passed since the Norfolk meteorite collision incident! To this day, the Norfolk military base is still in ruins! Millions of citizens of the United States have not been able to return to their homes! They can only live in prefabricated houses! And the United States Government has so far not produced an investigation report on this incident! Who is to blame for this unfortunate disaster? Is this an unexpected natural disaster, or is it some other reason? We have Dr. David Lobineiz today, who worked at the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking Program, to help us find out!" Chuck Todd, host of NBC's ace current affairs show "Meet-the-Press," appears on Sunday's show as usual.

"Dr. Lobineiz, as far as I know, one of the most important tasks of Lincoln's near-Earth asteroid search program is to search for near-Earth asteroids, right?" Chuck Todd said hello to Lobineiz and cut straight to the point.

"Yes! That's one of the reasons why the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Search Program was established! And we're not the only research organization with such a mission!" Lobinez began to introduce the other agencies, "In the history of NASA, there have been six similar agencies, in addition to us, the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking Program (NEAT), the Lowville Observatory Near-Earth Object Search Program (Loneos), the Space Monitoring Program (SPAEATH), The Catalina-Sky-Survey, the Pan-Sky Survey Telescope and the Pan-Star Telescope, the Catalina Sky Survey was the first to detect the meteorite impact!"

Chuck Todd nodded from time to time, and when Lobineiz finished speaking, he asked, "Mr. Doctor, that sounds remarkable!" But can you tell us why we have as many as six asteroid surveillance agencies, and we still haven't been able to find this asteroid that destroyed Norfolk and brought great disaster to the United States?"

"First of all, we are not unaware that the Catlin's Sky Survey system has given us three precious minutes of warning time to save the world from destruction! You must know that Norfolk had a large number of nuclear submarines moored at that time!" Lobinez corrected his mistake before explaining, "and our investment is not as great as you think in relation to the vastness of the universe!" The Lincoln NEASTEROID Search Program, which I worked on, had only a pair of GEODSS telescopes, and the same tool used by the NEASTEROID Tracking Program only worked 18 days a month due to a number of constraints. ”

"Although the Lowville Observatory's NEO search program can conduct all-day searches, their field of view is limited! The space monitoring program was established in 1980, and today many of the equipment is outdated and unusable; the Catlina Sky Survey System is the largest, but it has only three telescopes! The panoramic survey telescope and the rapid response system telescope are the most advanced, but they cannot monitor any starry sky at any time! You must know that the earth is round!"

"If we want to establish a complete asteroid monitoring system on the earth, the current equipment alone is far from enough! Although they cover a large part of the starry sky, there are still some omissions! Moreover, the focus of our previous monitoring was on near-Earth asteroids of more than one kilometer, which are the most threatening celestial bodies for mankind! And the meteorite that hit Norfolk this time is far less than this number!"

Lobineiz looked regretful, "In the past few decades, we have regarded mankind itself as our greatest threat, and preventing asteroid impact is only a theoretical study! Meteorites fall on the earth almost every day, but most of them are burned up when they enter the atmosphere! The very few that fall on the earth do not pose much of a threat! This makes us all forget that more than 100 years have passed since the Tunguska explosion!"

On June 30, 1908, an asteroid exploded near the Shiquan Tunguska River in the Krasnoyarsk Territory of Lucia, leveling about 2,000 square kilometers of Siberian forest. At the time, some scientists analyzed that the impact was equivalent to 1,000 times the power of Hiroshimahara.

"Mr. Doctor!" Chuck Todd had to interrupt his tirade, and the audience was obviously not more concerned with these questions, "We want to know if there will be a similar disaster in the near future! and is this really a natural disaster?"

"Probabilistically speaking, the probability of two large meteorite impacts in a short period of time is not high! Disasters of this magnitude are rare in the history of human civilization! There are not many cases other than the Tunguska explosion and the Norfolk collision this time!" Lobineiz hesitated for a moment, but decided to calm the audience, "So I don't think it is likely that a second time will happen in a short time!"

"As for the second question you mentioned! I think that with the current level of human technology, there is absolutely no way to control the impact of meteorites! And even if someone has mastered this technology, why would he only attack once and then give up? You must know that we have no way to defend against this kind of attack at present!"

"And what about aliens?"

"NASA doesn't have any evidence of aliens yet! We can't think of a reason for aliens to attack Earth!" Lobineiz scoffed at Todd's whimsy.

Trump turned off the television, and his aides agreed with Lobineiz's opinion, "Mr. President, NASA's findings are exactly the same as Lobineiz! We can't find any evidence of a man-made disaster! This incident should be a natural disaster!"

"Then, let's officially announce the results of the investigation!" Trump said and drew a cross on his chest, God, what did we do to make you angry and punish you like this?

The White House held a press conference the next day to unveil its findings, which were no different from Lobineiz's judgment on television yesterday, and the conclusion that natural disasters and the absence of a second time in a short period of time have reassured humanity around the world.

However, there are still fans of "Star Paratroopers" who keep claiming that this is the beginning of the Zerg attack, and we must unite to defend the earth, but their numbers are too small to make any waves!

When the news reached Huaguo, Lu Qiujian looked at the White House spokesman's voice in the video, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth! )