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Asteroids Want to Destroy the Middle Class- and Women

Big_D_ Wrote: Feb 27, 2013 12:41 PM
There's a lot going on in asteroid discovery, classification, orbit resolution--some is privately (even crowd) funded. Clearly, however, we need the smart guys to step up and provide gigabucks to perform this work redundantly...have at least three duplicate programs, and make sure to invest 10x as much money in it as any responsible citizen scientist would need. It will stimulate the economy. And the interest rates are soooooo low... Have I got it, John?

With science today largely funded by government, you knew it wouldn‘t be long before the recent asteroid encounter in Chelyabinsk, Russia would lead to well-meaning, but mostly hysterical cries that we MUST DO SOMETHING about it;  “something” that costs a lot of money; “something” that involves thick scientific studies; and- the best part- “something” that promises no results for the fifty-to-a-hundred thousand years of program costs, run by the central and federal  government of the US-of-A.

If we don’t do “something,” NOW they’ll say, we’ll risk plague, locusts, drought and the usual assortment of frogs lets loose by the...

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