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NASA Making Plans To Save the Earth

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the deep-armageddon dept.

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.

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  1. Obligatory? by VoltageX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I for one, welcome our new asteroid poking overlords.
    In Soviet Russia, asteroid pokes you!
    Only old people poke asteroids.

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  2. Re:there are more important things going on by VoltageX · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I love how my post got Offtopic but the parent didn't.

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  3. Save the earth? by no-body · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Earth is save!
    A couple of cleansing asteroids actually would not hurt getting rid of those little pests walking upright and haven't learned yet how to use their enlarged brains:



    Subject: Holy Hell They've Gone Nuts - $160 billion More for Iraq!
    http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=2171&i ssue_id=35
    Fiscal 2007 War Supplemental Expected to Be Largest Yet:
    Pentagon Prepares $160 Billion Request for Iraq War
    11/12/2006
    CQ TODAY
    Nov. 7, 2006

  4. Re:there are more important things going on by Otter · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    TomKat are getting married...

    On the one hand, they already married earlier this week. On the other hand, this story is a dupe from earlier this week so it all evens out.

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  5. Re:They need to hurry by icedcool · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    DUUPE JOKE! Poor man... poor.

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