[cogitator]

The one they need to find is the one that's going to hit the Earth...

[hchutch]

We've reached the point where all we REALLY nead is enough lead time on the discovery.

That, folks, is the hard part.

We've done most of the rest of the work thanks to the NEAR-Shoemaker probe, which LANDED on Eros and was still in contact for 16 days after the landing. If we can land a spacecraft with a scientific instruments on an asteroid, we could land a spacecraft with what the Air Force calls a "physics package" consisting of a "special store" on an asteroid.

Landing on the asteroid and then sending the signal to activate the physics package should solve the problem.

[JOAT]

Paging Bruce Willis...

What a boondoggle. "Will Fearmonger For Tax Dollars"

[mrsmith]

The one they need to find is the one that's full of the goodies we need in spce.

Then we can build lots of spacecraft and settlements for people who will live off Earth and keep an eye out for impactors in their spare time from working and living and, most importantly, making babies.

[MissAmericanPie]

Revelation says we suffer an ocean impact, from a chunk of rock the size of a small mountain, that destroys ships and fish. The reason for this impact seems to be to preserve life in general, as future events on the sun, some type of heating up, causes men to be scorched, and darkness is needed to preserve life during the tribulation period.

[OrioleFan]

I think we should honor prominent DemocRATs by naming NEA after them, because their goal is to make us weak so our enemies can destroy us.