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."

Comments

If the human species hadn't been wiped out...

[mikeophile]

cockroaches may never have evolved to the vast interstellar empire we have today.

Re:Bush Administration

[jabber01]

That sort of attitude, or rather the serious and thoughtful equivalent thereof, specifically the development of a NEO monitoring program and an SDI shield that points up rather than down, would be too enlightenned for the current administration.