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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. Am I the only one that doesn't care by Adult+film+producer · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let this rock disintegrate into nothing. I'm convinced nothing good can come of this human experiment. Whoever or whatever set this up has failed, or maybe they've been proven right. Nevermind, it would be better if humans destroyed this god forsaken shithole and let the surviving crockroaches and worms start another era of magnificent evolution.

  2. Re:Better Idea by Short+Circuit · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey, there's some good stuff in Redmond.

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    "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

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