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Old 12-04-2018, 12:00 AM
 
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Dems will fight it all the way. Asteroids have rights too.
Yeah, they are aliens but we supported illegal aliens before.

There may be an endangered alien beetle on the asteroid.
Once its in our atmosphere we need to protect it with our environmental laws. Da....

 
Old 12-04-2018, 12:04 AM
 
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The crazy is very strong with this post.

Wow.
You haven't talked to the democrats lately. Get out more. Its a eye opener.
 
Old 12-04-2018, 12:12 AM
 
Location: Brackenwood
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Tell Trump there are disease-carrying ferners and MS-13 members on these asteroids and it'll be funded tomorrow.
 
Old 12-04-2018, 12:58 AM
 
Location: Pennsylvania
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This is actually something that we should be funding. Not trips to Mars, or trips to the moon, or any of the other nonsense that NASA wastes money on. But being prepared in case an asteroid is going to nail this planet - and having the means to shoot it down before it does....makes a lot of sense.
 
Old 12-04-2018, 06:38 AM
 
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Why would an astronaut be an expert on defending earth from an asteroid? Astronauts are hands-on people who perform experiments, transport cargo, and repair things.

I would trust a professional statistician more. Maybe this guy is knowledgeable but the astronaut cred is strictly for show in this context.
The same way a mathematician is an expert on Climate Change and called a "Climate Science".
 
Old 12-04-2018, 06:39 AM
 
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THIS is a bigger probability than everyone dying from climate change. We have only looked deep into about 12% of the sky looking for NEO's. We have NO IDEA if there is actually something heading for us or not. IT WILL eventually happen sooner or later.
 
Old 12-04-2018, 06:43 AM
 
Location: Santa Monica
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Tell Trump there are disease-carrying ferners and MS-13 members on these asteroids and it'll be funded tomorrow.
Sky-wall 2020: fund it.

Printing out the bumper stickers as we speak.
 
Old 12-04-2018, 06:50 AM
 
Location: Japan
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This is actually something that we should be funding. Not trips to Mars, or trips to the moon, or any of the other nonsense that NASA wastes money on. But being prepared in case an asteroid is going to nail this planet - and having the means to shoot it down before it does....makes a lot of sense.
Geez... the "Beer Man of Pennsylvania" is too practical-minded for space travel? Wouldn't you like to crack a cold one and watch the BFR lift off?
 
Old 12-04-2018, 06:58 AM
 
Location: Philaburbia
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Like as if we don’t have other more pressing problems to deal with.
Fear not. A big enough asteroid will wipe out all those "pressing problems" in an instant.

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I say fund it only if the US is threatened. Asteroid going to waste another part of the world, let it.
You think the fallout from an asteroid strike will respect national boundaries? LMAO.
 
Old 12-04-2018, 07:10 AM
 
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Why would an astronaut be an expert on defending earth from an asteroid? Astronauts are hands-on people who perform experiments, transport cargo, and repair things.

I would trust a professional statistician more. Maybe this guy is knowledgeable but the astronaut cred is strictly for show in this context.
There are two questions:

What is the probability of being impacted by a significantly large space object in the next 1000 years?

Consider that a large asteroid strikes the earth about once every 100 million years.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-chance-of-an/
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/

Is the objective to prevent this from happening actionable or realistic?

Even if we knew that a collision is imminent, the technology to prevent such an impact by changing the course of an object is extremely limited.
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