but believe it or not, worrying about how to defend ourselves against an asteroid apocalypse isn t just a thing that happens in deep impact, starring morgan friedman. why it is always a black guy is a president when the world is going to blow up? it s also the stuff of mid-summer washington politics. enter president obama and the asteroid lasso plan. he put nasa to work and came up with a solution to catch an asteroid. nothing to crazy, just a small one like a little pet asteroid, and to bring it closer to earth and figure out how to redirect if a big killer kind ever shows up, now we know how to deal with it before it destroys us. president obama is giving us our own pet rock from outer space. nasa is even giving us a video that shows us how this vacuum thing would expand out and grab the asteroid gently, moving it