Armageddon Preventative being Organized

[cbelt3]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16651642
"NEOShield is a new international project that will assess the threat posed by Near Earth Objects (NEO) and look at the best possible solutions for dealing with a big asteroid or comet on a collision path with our planet."
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We've got until 2029 before the next predicted close pass. Of course, there's lots of dark rocks out there we haven't seen yet. We still depend entirely on optical sensing.. occlusion of known stars by moving objects, or reflection of sunlight off the object.

[$tevie]

I thought that Superman handled this stuff.

[edgarbc1]

$tevie wrote:
I thought that Superman handled this stuff.

nope Bruce Willis and that other dude who is married to the Alias girl
handles this stuff... and add to that Steve Buscemi

[GGD]

"The politicians would then have everything on a plate. All they have to do is decide whether or not to execute the mission."

And we all know how well science and politics mix.

[bazookaman]

edgarbc1 wrote:
[quote=$tevie]
I thought that Superman handled this stuff.

nope Bruce Willis and that other dude who is married to the Alias girl
handles this stuff... and add to that Steve Buscemi
Don't forget Colonel Willie Sharp...

[deckeda]

GGD wrote:

"The politicians would then have everything on a plate. All they have to do is decide whether or not to execute the mission."

And we all know how well science and politics mix.

Ah, but you discount the politicians' self-preservation instinct. We'd see money allocated to this so fast your head would spin.

But I like the Superman idea better. With Bruce Willis/Steve Buscemi/Neo/James Bond on call if Chuck Norris is getting his beard trimmed that day.

[OWC Jamie]

<<"The politicians would then have everything on a plate. All they have to do is decide whether or not to execute the mission.">>

They need to sell it as job creation.
Then it will be easy money.

[GGD]

billb wrote:
<<"The politicians would then have everything on a plate. All they have to do is decide whether or not to execute the mission.">>

They need to sell it as job creation.
Then it will be easy money.

They might argue that not doing it will create more jobs, cleaning up the aftermath of the impact.

[Paul F.]

They'd still be squabbling about whose district the manufacturing of the asteroid destroying probe would be made in on impact day....

You know the saying... Pro is the opposite of Con, so the opposite of Progress is Congress.

[haikuman]

Allowing impact will reduce the homeless population, reduce the unemployment rate in 2 ways by reducing the unemployed population and by creating jobs. This will also provide something else for the media to write about besides, politics, government and the economy :devil: