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NASA Making Plans To Save the Earth
aluminumangel writes, "Taking a page out of a Michael Bay movie, NASA is considering a manned mission to land on an asteroid, 'poke one with a stick,' and see how feasible it would be to deflect it from its course. Obviously, the application would be valuable in a doomsday situation and hopefully could keep us from going wherever the dinosaurs went." The article makes oblique reference to another goal such a mission could serve: giving us something to do in space, something to engage the paying public, between the time we return to the Moon and the time we get to Mars.
If this means finally launching Ben Affleck into space, I'm all for it.
They really need to hurry, Bruce Willis isn't getting any younger!
Obligatory:
Man created beer.
God created pot.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, however......
phew, I feel safer knowing that Michael Bay's movies are the blueprint for saving the world. At least I can rest easy tonight.
except, without people, you wouldn't get to have tearjerker bravery/sacrifice with "don't want to miss a thing" playing in the background.
What if you used a really big ball of garbage?
... and then they built the supercollider.
Technically, the dinosaurs didn't go anywhere. They just shrunk and grew feathers.. we know grow them in factory farms and eat them by the pound at Chik-Fil-A.
(That and worship our them as our yellow masters through PBS.)
-GiH
Hey you will go screwing up all those astrologists and their predictions if you start moving crap around! Think of the ASTROLOGISTS!!!!!
American components. Russian components. All made in Taiwan!
I for one welcome the uprising against the new asteroid overlords.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Shhh. Don't say things like that, or they won't let us take our asteroids on airplanes anymore.
Dude. First, take a deep breath. Then, go here and hit Refresh over and over until the bad feeling goes away. After that, take a walk in the woods, or go to church, or help out at a day-care or something. Life has meaning if you go look for it. :-)
Information wants to be anthropomorphized!
See this beowulf cluster? Garbage. See this slashdot post? Garbage.
... and then they built the supercollider.
You're missing the point.
Cruise missiles, unlike asteroids, have no super-villain street cred. Hurling giant space rocks at people displays a lot more panache.
That's like saying anyone who can build a weather machine to grief his enemies probably already has guns he could shoot him with.