Nasa funds Armageddon-style plans to fit robots to ASTEROIDS to protect Earth from the threat of ‘doomsday’ meteor strikes

You are probably familiar with films such as Armageddon, telling stories of the human race nearly being wiped out by impacts from asteroids.

But a project funded by Nasa is developing a way to turn such asteroids from a threat into something useful, namely spaceships that can help defend the planet.

The project, named Reconstituting Asteroids into Mechanical Automata (RAMA), aims at working out a way to turn the rocks into basic spacecraft using robots.

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