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Asteroid Mission Competition Announces Winner
Riding with Robots writes "The Planetary Society invited participants to compete for $50,000 in prizes by designing a mission to rendezvous with and 'tag' a potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid. The asteroid Apophis was used as the target for the mission design because it will come closer to Earth in 2029 than the orbit of geostationary satellites. The winning mission design is called Foresight, and calls for the use of off-the-shelf parts to undercut the price of other proposals. Here's a PDF of the winning proposal."
That's nice; But how about tagging the "near Earth" magnetic giant that's been in our solar system since 2003? The problem is that our eyes and ears of the "space" around us is totally controlled by the U.S. Government (you don't believe this? Do your research & learn); The U.S. Government is almost totally corrupt and self-serving. SO, you don't KNOW whether they are reporting the facts. The indisputable FACT is, they don't ever tell the truth if it will impact "them" adversely. You can NEVER know the truth of things by relying on the U.S. Government agencies, etc. for your source of knowledge. IF you want the truth of things, you MUST go outside the box. Ultimately, THINK-USE your brain: IF a threat was close at hand, what would they do or say? Sorry folks, most of you are gonna die, the threat is way for us to deal with? WOULD they tell you this and have 500 million people on the rampage? Ultimately2: The magnetic giant IS coming and it's gonna break things. Cr0vv.