Mining Asteroids@Home

An anonymous reader writes "Like the lively discussion on mediation strategies for exterminating asteroids, a six-person expert panel is debating today whether humans exist because of big collisions or in spite of them. Interestingly Mexico's oil (and most of the rest of the world's resources) seem to have arisen from later mining of these byproducts: the luck of geography or the price at the pump for dead dinosaurs."

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God may know what Bush would have done, but I know

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God may know what Bush would have done, but I know what Gore would have done if he were President. The situation: Asteroid is hurtling toward earth, miners want to mine it, upon completion, would destroy it. Gore gets behind Greenpeace and deams the asteroid a national park that is protected. (After all, he would say, "Life originated on the asteroid, I know all about origins, I helped create the internet, and brought life into this world with my beautiful wife, I am with Greenpeace, we should remain neutral and see what the asteroid's impact will be"