[LoudAmericanCowboy]

We detected the biggest friggin tsunami in the history of the friggin world and they wanna talk to us about "the need for good, current advice"!!

Details of where money would best be spent would be worked out by an international committee modelled on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which advises politicians on global warming.Lemmie guess. By the way, Indonesia, ANSWER THE FRIGGIN PHONE NEXT TIME!

[Trimegistus]

They should call the system SPACEGUARD, after a similar project described in a novel by Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

Nice to see the Brits stepping up to the plate on this one.

Hey -- they could even have a rapid-response rescue team of marionettes!

[Diogenesis]

They can't save themselves from the EU
and the EU's France can't even save their owh people from the hot Summer's sun.

[AntiGuv]

We need a whole lot more than a glorified alarm system to protect us from asteroids and supervolcanos, but I guess this is a good first baby step..

[ElkGroveDan]

Now if only they could launch a rocket into space by themselves, we would have something here.

[onedoug]

"Only idiots and liars predict earthquakes." --Charles Richter

[RightWhale]

That's true, apparently warning everybody does not correlate with saving everybody. Warning us that earth will be split in two by an asteroid next Monday probably wouldn't do us a lot of good.

[expatguy]

Who is going to protect them from Islamic invasion from within?

[citizen]

More would be trampled in the chaos than by all but the truly word disaster events.

[Ramius]

OK... so I've got this plan... first we buy five billion pagers....

[Darkwolf377]

The Brits can't even save us from endless versions of Dr. Who, but they're going to save us from asteroids?

[martin_fierro]

BRITAIN'S PLAN TO SAVE PLANET FROM QUAKES AND ASTEROIDS...

THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!

[taxesareforever]

The name for it? SCREWTHE TAXPAYER

[blastdad51]

I need new glasses, first time I read the post I thought it said " Quacks and Steriods "

[LibertarianInExile]

Details of where money would best be spent would be worked out by an international committee modelled on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which advises politicians on global warming.

Geez, they didn't bother with ANY of that crap in Moonraker.

[Chode]

and would that plan be...

[Ruth A.]

This life doesn't come with money-back guarantees. It is risky and has trials. I don't need their stinkin' protection.

[Wiz]

No problem, we already got our solutions.

[Wiz]

Call FEMA to shoot down astroids with lasers from F-16s.

[familyop]

...a warning system. Hmmm.

So how will Britain save the world from the earthquakes and asteroids--by withering them with an attitude of royal superiority and condescension?

[Nowhere Man]