It Came From Outer Space

stylewagon writes: "Some Japanese scientists have applied to bring some asteroid samples back to Earth, specifically to Woomera in South Australia, in order to study their geology."

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Finally!

[Snowfox]

NOW will you stop laughing??

People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun, such as programming, after spending the necessary ten hours a week on required tasks such as legislation, family counseling, robot repair and asteroid prospecting.

-- Richard M Stallman, The GNU Manifesto

The Thing

[stx23]

This isn't going to be good, mutant ice cream will soon inherit the Earth.

Orbital Bombardment...

[MWLongworth]

...is we really want.
Launch probe, collect asteroids, return to earth. The Japanese effort only returns _samples_, but with a bigger probe, and better targeting, anything is possible.
I wonder how many people will elect Redmond, Washington as the first target.

Asteroid mining is another (far more peaceful, and therefore boring and not as deserving of development resources) application.

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Fifth post.

[jerkface]

Please mod me up. My karma is very low right now.