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Asteroids in his sights: UCSB's Philip Lubin

UCSB cosmologist Philip Lubin believes that the concept of using lasers to destroy or deflect dangerous near-Earth objects is no longer in the realm of science fiction. Credit: SPIE/Amy Nelson.