NASA's Plan For Detecting Potentially Threatening Asteroids Is in Financial Jeopardy

wouldn't it be cheaper to just hire Bruce Willis an an all-star mining team for a few weeks?

too easy

I think a manned mission to an asteroid would be pretty sweet, if we could pull it off. Maybe bring them in far earth orbit and mine them while we mine the moon?

Has NASA really done anything revolutionary/significant since the moon landing?

If NASA played poker then every time they made a bet on something then i will go all in bc they are always wrong.

For all the astronomy and aviation fans/techies, i ran across this site which has ton of interesting information.

maggwire.com/articles/index/popular-science/published:week/category:science

lol nice treehouse of horror reference

Has NASA really done anything revolutionary/significant since the moon landing?

Well- I would think most would consider landing a unmanned robot on the surface of Mars to be a significant achievement, let alone on three different occasions. I mean who has ever heard of sucess without failure? But seriously if you have that much money to bet on NASA's quote "failures" you should just start your own Air and Space organization. Sounds like something a business major would say lol

PeteDSL Chula Vista
NASA is a government agency with a long line of budget induced, politically motivated failures dubbed "accidents"
Their governmental modus operendi is to contract out the science and construction of projects to corporations that specialize in government contracts. Their projects reek of cost overruns, and coverups for management lapses.
Real space science is done by small labs run by genius such as the skunk works or composite engineering. Kelly Johnson and Burt Rutan provide the out of the box thinking and vision that make things fly.
Entrusting earth safety to NASA will work just as well as everything else that they have done. Which means that one day we will all have to bend over and kiss our **selves** goodbye.
It is not enough to find the asteroids 6 months before the collision, the necessity is having the men and machines in place to do something about it a year in advance.
Today, if we found an asteroid 2 years away from collision we could not establish that it was on a definite collision course nor get men and machines out there to divert it within 2 years.
We need functioning spacestations with space factories capable of building space tow trucks in place 2 years before impact and the government is not capable of doing that, and as long as it is more important to feed starving people who are dying through lack of proper infrastructure than it is to change local infrastructure or build adequate emergency services then nothing will be done in time.
If humanity is still around maybe the government will do something to stop asteroid collision number three (3)

When we are not able to stop one rock, we are not deserve to live!!!
And WHEN the rich peoples understand that their money are not able to safe their lives...
...Maybe will stop to control the world and share these space with peoples with ideas, to understand the "Capital" from inside and for what must to surv...

This is unfortunately a representation of our human nature and maybe that means that as we think too much as individuals and not enough as a group, our chances of long-term survival as a species are close to zero. The disaster produced by such collision is the certain end of our civilization and it is time for humanity to grow up and reach a higher level of thinking for the common good.
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Henriette de Vries
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