While giving his “Death from the Skies!” lecture, astronomer Phil Plait gets the first-hand experience with “Crushing and Zapping and Impacting” at the Engineering Open House run by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Engineering department: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/31/_engineering_open_house
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