Isn’t Spaceguard just more profiling? It discriminates between those lumps of rock that might hit the Earth and those that won’t. We should treat them all the same and bring them all down to Earth no mater their orbit or size. There should be no ghettoes in space such as the asteroid belt or the ort-cloud.
It’s only fair.
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I think the USA should just genetically modify a breed of giant baseball players to send that piece of goddam rock to Pluto and back...Leave a comment:
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Jim Abury, you are our kind of guy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4794121.stm
Astronomers (and a few far-sighted politicians such as MP Lembit Opik) have been calling for ten years for proper funding for an international 'Spaceguard' program, to catalogue asteroids which may impact our planet. The proposed cost of this would be around £100 million - less than the cost of making a single Hollywood film such as 'Armageddon' or 'Deep Impact' - yet it seems we as a race prefer risking annihilation to spending 2p per person to save ourselves. With an attitude like that, we're 'doomed, Captain Wainwaring, doomed'. (Or is it possible that the people in power really are all alien lizards who want to kill us off and have this planet for themselves...?)
Jim Abury, Leeds, UK
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