Posted on 06/15/2004 8:13:21 AM PDT by missyme
We'd have permanent colonies across the solar system in 20 years.
There would be a HUGE push to 'spread the seed of man'
Members of Kongress exist for one purpose and one purpose only to spend everyone else's money, so if there is any concern it is that someone else may find a spending opportunity first.
Representative Dana Rohrbacher, who leads the House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, said, "There is a threat to us and to our lives, of objects coming from space that could hit our planet and kill millions of people.
Oh a crisis One only to be alleviated by slipping some hard earned taxpayer dollars into some liberal university somwhere or hiring some more government workers parasites
It's happened in the past
Possibly 65,000,000 and 200,000,000 years ago
and it will happen in the future. The question is when, and how many people will be affected.
Maybe in another 70,000,000 years; however, you can be affected today as yet another kongressional spending boondoggle gets under way.
Not so long ago, science assumed the risk was even smaller for these extremely rare events. But better technology means we're discovering more, and finding a higher risk than was first believed.
Yep instead of 100,000,000 to 1, it might be only 50,000,000 to one. Sounds like a good reason to start a self perpetuating government program to me.
Didn't Pittsburgh experience a near-miss with a meteor in 1938 ?
No it was a direct hit - just no one noticed. There was a near miss in Canada in 1973 - photographed going through the atmosphere in Banff or Calgary - I forget which
The common name for such a system is "The Earth"!
I'm suprised they're not saying its Bush's fault.
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