Asteroid Day On June 30 Aims To Raise Awareness of Collision Risks

benonemusic writes: International organizers--including Queen's Brian May, an astrophysicist--have organized the world's first Asteroid Day on June 30, as a means to raise awareness for future collision risks and encourage actions to minimize the threats from such events. "If we can track the trajectories of asteroids and monitor their movement in our solar system, then we can know if they are on a path to impact Earth," former Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart told the organizers of Asteroid Day in a statement. "If we find them early enough, we can move them out of Earth's orbit, thus preventing any kind of major natural disaster."

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Re:Oh please.

[Maritz]

Yes. Our assessment of risk, as a species, utterly sucks balls. We obsess over terrorism and child car seats. We are unconcerned about heart disease even though that will always kill a thousand times more people yearly. Similar with AGW and asteroids. Too vague, too remote, don't care.