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UN Plans Asteroid Response Framework
chrb writes "The Association of Space Explorers, a non-profit group of people who have completed at least one Earth orbit in space, has presented a report to the United Nations titled Asteroid Threats: A Call for Global Response. The UN will now meet in February to discuss the issue and try to define a global political framework for dealing with asteroid-based threats to the Earth."
right, because the unprovoked unilateral invasion of another country is exactly the same as defending the earth from an asteroid on a collision path with earth.
hrm, should or shouldn't we stop the asteroid from wiping out humanity? such a tough choice...
yes, this is a very controversial decision indeed. i'm sure it'll be a very contentious and globally divisive issue raising suspicions about ulterior political/economic motives. after all, if the international community could object to the murder of tens of thousands of innocent civilians for the purpose of appropriating oil resources, then what wouldn't they object to, right?
Then they will send peacekeepers to the Asteroid and tell them to make sure to record all the genocides there.
As if Oil for Food, Commission on Human Rights and United Nations Office for Project Services weren't already proof enough that any money given to the U.N. is money wasted !
Yeah, that'll be great. Their response to an asteroid will be to convene a commission to determine how it will disproportionately affect women and minorities, develop a framework for taking from those not as affected and giving to those who are, and to develop a way for the least productive and least capable members of society survive while those perish who could actually help society recover.