Easterbrook in Atlantic Monthly - NASA Not Preventing Possible Space Rock Catastrophe

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Originally Posted by edo783

I know it would be more interesting to try that sort of thing, but I look at it as having to learn how to walk first and I think that is what NASA is doing. Lets get it down by hitting a target that is relatively close, you pretty much know where it will be before trying to figure out how to hit things that are a bit further away, smaller and somewhat more random in location. Also, the moon would make a pretty good jumping off point from a facility there to do just what is asked.

a lunar battle station?

i like it. doubles as an anti-alien invasion base (just to calm down the weirdos). just hook the moon up with all the nukes we can find!!!

but we would have to have some we-are-the-world space crew so nobody feels like a bomb is about to get dropped on 'em.

i can't believe anybody is even worried about asteriods. that would be fun to watch until it hit!! haha, but seriously with how unpredictable space is (and uh...how we know probably one-trillionth of all there is to know about space) if there were an asteriod coming i doubt we would know in time to do anything about it.

my top 5 best space annihilations:
5. reality splitting
4. when the sun explodes
3. an asteriod collision
2. an alien attack
1. being sucked into a black hole.