[LibWhacker]

Actually, I think this is a good project for Europeans since so few of them show much inclination to actually fight on the ground to save civilization.

[DBrow]

How much difference is there in the technology to deflect and the capability to aim?

TANSTAAFL!

[Mike Darancette]

The Europeans cannot keep Europe being Europe how are they going to deflect an object the size of Manhattan traveling through space at 25 miles/sec?

[3AngelaD]

It looks like the French aren't part of the consortium. I guess the rest of Europe figures they'd just launch a huge white flag into space and surrender to the asteroid.

[Shaun_MD]

Send them Uncle Ted. He could deflect a whole fleet of asteroids.

[SIDENET]

The European Space Agency (ESA)

Will this still exist once Europe becomes part of the Caliphate?

[Juan Medén]

Let them fight asteroids. They stink at everything else.

[Kirkwood]

[manwiththehands]

Someone in the CIA leaked secrets to the Europeans! The Doomsday Asteroid Manipulator modification to the Karl Rove Weather Machine is ready for testing!

[Continental Soldier]

I think that the name, "Don Quijote Project" tells us just about everything we need to know about it. :)

[NicknamedBob]

Can you think of any reason this European "My Weekly Reader" report is misspelling Don Quixote?

[bkepley]

--The risk of an asteroid collision with Earth is extremely remote.

Really?

[KevinDavis]

[SunkenCiv]

The collision kicked up so much dust that heat and light from the Sun were diminished, destroying much of Earth's vegetation and the larger species of land animals that depended on it.

It also sent out a shock wave that spread for hundreds of miles, threw ejecta which flew thousands of miles, and set fires at great distances. Probably also heated the atmosphere, and not just locally.

[Reaganesque]

I hear the French proposal involves 20 million Frenchmen screaming to the skies: "NOT IN THE FACE! NOT IN THE FACE!"