# How well would modern society handle the dinosaur killing meteor if it happened today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 27, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-would-modern-society-handle-the-dinosaur-killing-meteor-if-it-happened-today/933856 "2021-02-27T00:30:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 113
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-would-modern-society-handle-the-dinosaur-killing-meteor-if-it-happened-today/933856/113 "2021-03-02T21:34:01Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > On breaking up an asteroid, there was this discussion back in 2010 Other threads touching on it include: > [@Redirecting asteroids on an impact course by momentum transfer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redirecting-asteroids-on-an-impact-course-by-momentum-transfer/804718): > > Stranger on a Train, who has claimed many times to be a rocket scientist and made many educated seeming posts, made the following statement : \*Redirecting a much larger object, however, becomes a substantial challenge not only because of the additional mass but because the impulse will impinge upon only by a fraction of aspect of the body and would likely be absorbed as deformation within the body (inelastic transfer or liquification) rather than uniformly delivered to the entire aspect. Moving… > [@The K-T Asteroid: Would Modern Instrumentation Have Seen It Coming?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-k-t-asteroid-would-modern-instrumentation-have-seen-it-coming/804670): > > Would the equipment we use now to watch for ELE asteroids have picked up the K-T asteroid? If humans had been on the ground at the time, when would they have been able to see it with their own eyes? Hours before impact? Minutes? Seconds? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-would-modern-society-handle-the-dinosaur-killing-meteor-if-it-happened-today/933856)._