If Earth is destroyed, Mars could become Noah's Ark for humanity։ Interview with Areg Mikayelyan

If the asteroid is a hundred meters in size and hits the Earth at a right angle, it will destroy any large city.

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A hundred-meter asteroid can collide with the Earth once in a million years, and a one-kilometer asteroid – once in ten million years.

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Why are they exploring Mars? Because if the Earth is ever destroyed, evacuating to Mars could be a version of Noah's Ark.

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If the USA or the EU decide to invest their finances in sending a mission to Mars, they can do it in ten years.

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Sodom and Gomorrah were actually destroyed by an asteroid impact.

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Against the elements of nature, we are very insignificant, humanity cannot even withstand a volcano.

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We can deflect the asteroid with a collision, but we don't have the resources to stop it.

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When we create intelligent robots, that is, they decide what they do, they will surely decide to keep us in small numbers like animals, in cages, as we do.

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The probability of the existence of an extraterrestrial civilization is very high because the universe is very large; there are about 400 billion stars in our galaxy alone.

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No extraterrestrials have been discovered yet, fantasy films are fictional.

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There is a high probability that there was life on Mars in the past.

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There is a view that extraterrestrials have visited Earth in the past.

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During the Cold War, in 1971, Nixon called Brezhnev and discussed joint efforts to defend against aliens.

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Armenians have a very serious contribution to space studies. Norair Sisakian is considered the founder of space biology.

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The nearest star after the sun is 270,000 times further away, reaching the stars is a fantasy.

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Humanity can eliminate itself even without cosmic danger.

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Half of the astronomers believe in the existence of God, half do not.

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It is written that on the day of Jesus Christ's crucifixion there was a lunar eclipse, the day of that eclipse is already on April 3, 33 AD.

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Interview with Areg Mikayelyan as part of NEWS.am's new "Did you know?" project.

Areg Mikayelyan

Areg Mikayelyan holds a PhD in physical and mathematical sciences, a lecturer at Department of Astrophysics, Yerevan State University (YSU), the Director of the Byurakan Observatory and the Chairman of the Scientific Council. He is the president of the Armenian Astronomical Society.