NASA Can't Pay for Killer Asteroid Hunt

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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Re:Why would that be the case?

[tha_mink]

Seems like a questionable assumption to me. There's quite a bit we could possibly do about it, if we knew long enough in advance. It's only if we only knew about it a few weeks or months in advance, that it would probably be a bend-over-and-pucker-up moment. Does anyone else see the transparency of the NASA statement. Sure, we COULD find earth killers, but we don't have the money... We get it NASA, you're broke and nobody cares. You still want to be relevant but the problem is you're such a piece of shit bureaucracy that you just can't be anymore. It's your own fault. You've got outdated procedures and processes that don't work, you spend *WAY* too much money in failure and you have *NO* plan to fix your broken atmosphere of failure. Time to fold it up and start over.

Go home and get your shine box.

Suppress the messenger

[prgrmr]

It's the only consistent policy from the Bush administration regarding science, so why does anyone expect anything different now?