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NASA Can't Pay for Killer Asteroid Hunt

Posted by Hemos on from the anyone-raid-the-coffee-fund-money dept.

CGISecurity.com writes "NASA officials say the space agency is capable of finding nearly all the asteroids that might pose a devastating hit to Earth, but there isn't enough money to pay for the task so it won't get done. 'We know what to do, we just don't have the money,' said Simon 'Pete' Worden, director of NASA's Ames Research Center." But hey, it's just the potential end of the world, so nothing much to worry about there.

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  1. Re:Lets assume they had the funding by hsa · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There is nothing we can do about it anyway.

    We can sent a team of very good drillers to the asteroid. Their mission is to drill 800 ft. into the comet to place a nuclear explosive device. The explosion of the bomb will break the comet in two, and the two pieces will pass earth on both sides.

    I hear Harry S. Stamper is a good choice.