I don’t know about all that, but I know Obama! can Make Change! with is mighty mind and huge heart!
All he will need to do once he is properly installed as our new Emperor is to speak truth to power and banish all bad things! Even bad space things!
Ooohmmm Obama! Many Changes Ooohmmm.
PS, not really.
This space rock type cat-a**-trophy (apps to Piers Anthony and The Magic of Zanth) stuff is very interesting to me, if that matters any. I don’t see how we can actually do anything about any of it, even if we do see a rock heading our way, but then again, there’s lots I don’t know so maybe we’ve got Space Rock Zappers already in the inventory.
“I don’t see how we can do anything about it. (incoming space rocks)” Don’t be so gloomy.
Did you miss the two dramatic films a few years ago about such a scenario? I think the titles were “Deep Impact” and “Armagedon”. Bruce Willis was in one of them. One movie described landing on and drilling deep into the asteroid and setting off a nuclear device. More recent real life suggestions have been to detonate a rocket delivered nuclear device on the surface to cause a very slight deflection in the orbit. The longer lead time we had on the existance of an “incoming”, the better this much simpler technology would work. Thus the need to have lots of eyes both north and south look for them. Amateur astronomers have made significant contributions in finding new space objects.