[blam]

"I wish these "experts" would care enough about it to pay for the response themselves, instead of asking others to carry the load."

A good excuse to implement a UN World Tax huh?

[Calvin Locke]

But the threat is real enough, experts argue, to merit a United Nations protocol for dealing with the problem.

Let's not, say we did, and keep our tax dollars.

Heck, let's see if Australia will let us set up a couple of asteroid observatories there, since the majority of uncharted ones are most likely in the Southern Hemisphere field of view.

Then, we can figure out a way to deal with any potentially real threats.

But in the mean time, we can still send up Affleck just to make sure...