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Rand Expert Says To Keep Mum About Killer Asteroids
crashnbur writes "NASA is conducting a survey of the sky to find asteroids large enough that a collision with earth could 'extinction-type impact', and none studied so far will threaten us in the next 200 years. Of course, if a doomsday asteroid is discovered, the current policy is not to say a word: 'If you can't do anything about a warning, then there is no point in issuing a warning at all', says Dr. Geoffery Sommer. The issue may be making its rounds because an asteroid was discovered orbiting the sun between Venus and Earth earlier this week. Space.com presents a lengthy, four-part 'Impact Debate' (next three parts coming next three Tuesdays). Apparently we are just as likely to die by asteroid impact as in a plane crash."
... the same policy is applicable to:
- Non-stoppable domestic terror attacks
- Aliens landing and harvesting us all for our brains (GWB2.0 is safe, though)
- The return of Christ
In either event, the U.S. Government is supposed to tell FEMA heads to activate the Iron Mountain facility, and leave it at that.
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
NASA and the various other governmental space agencies shouldn't have a monopoly on the access to space.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
How many extinction level meteors have we suffered in the last 100 years? Okay, now how many fatal plane crashes have happened in that same span? Considering that extinction level meteors slam into the earth, what every few millions of years (?), thousands of planes take to the sky every day, this is a lousy comparison.