[TBP]

Good to know. We don't have to worry about asteroids. NASA will save us.

[ETL]

[ETL]

[Ciaphas Cain]

NASA will save us.

God have mercy we're screwed.

[shalom aleichem]

Bruce Willis?

[Simon Green]

[Bryanw92]

Now we know why their mission was changed to glorifying Allah a few years ago. They are going to drive a truck bomb into the asteroid and they needed Muslim know-how to make that happen.

[bgill]

Send pic of Hellary and Debbie out to space and nothing will venture near.

[plain talk]

Well Glenn Beck can scoff all he wants but what is HIS plan for preventing asteroids from hitting the Earth? The issue gets scant attention because such action might not be needed for 10,000 years or might be needed next month. Who knows? But one thing we do know from history is that a big rock will someday slam into the Earth again.

[cgbg]

NASA = Never A Straight Answer

Fortunately, however, I have sources in NASA who given me the _real_ "above top secret" plan.

(1) Each "foreign" object will be registered, named and given an identity card. Yes, NASA will fly a vehicle to the object and put an American flag on it with the identity card on the flag.

2. NASA will issue a Request for Bids to determine which private contractor gets to deal with the "foreign object". This contracting process is expected to take between six months and a year.

3. In the meantime if the object is about to hit the Earth before the contracting process is complete a "Duck and Cover" booklet from the 1950s will be air-dropped to potentially affected areas.

4. If the object survives a collision with Earth it will be issued food stamps, Section 8 housing vouchers, a driver's license indicating its chosen sexual identity, a clunker vehicle, and free education at the local state university.

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[UCANSEE2]

The plan would be to launch a spacecraft toward an asteroid that would change the asteroid's trajectory

Like the Muslims who drive a truck into a crowd of Americans ?

[G Larry]

Who funds these stupid projects?

Those congress-critters ought to be fired.

Same mentality funded the tower of Babel.

[unread]

Sure, their going to hire Russa to save their butts....

[Verginius Rufus]

Less than a third of the world’s surface is dry land—the Pacific Ocean alone is larger than all the continents combined. So the chances of an asteroid hitting land would be about 11%...and less than 10% of the land area of the earth is the US. So there is very little chance that an asteroid which hit the earth would hit the US. It might actually hit some place that we would prefer to have demolished.

[Vermont Lt]

So, what if these moves the asteroid into a new orbit. You know...the orbit that hits us two or three orbits later.