|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Easterbrook in Atlantic Monthly - NASA Not Preventing Possible Space Rock Catastrophe
In typical Gregg Easterbrook fashion, this article is was too long for it's own good, but given we live in Space City, I figure more than a few us would be interested and have an opinion on it (or Easterbrook ).
Snipped from the middle of the article: Quote:
|
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Yeah, the History Channel has done a number of programs on this topic, coincidentally, there is one on right now. They are saying that the number of people working on this "problem" could work a shift at a McDonald's....
|
#3
|
|||
|
|||
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.
__________________
Old age just comes at a real bad time. |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Quote:
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.
__________________
Cowher Power 2011!!!!!!!!!!!! |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Having a presence on the moon could possibly make it easier to detect an asteroid big enough to really do some damage...and serve as a launching point for Bruce Willis to go out there and take care of it for us.
__________________
"Well, at least our players kept their helmets on, so that showed some intelligence"-BobMcNair |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
I'd prefer to send my painful memories of the 2005 Texans instead.
|
#7
|
|||
|
|||
anybody seen that robot chicken were they send harrison ford and aerosmith into space to stop an asteroid?
you should if you haven't.
__________________
Cowher Power 2011!!!!!!!!!!!! |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
Gregg "chicken little" Easterbrook is basically telling us the sky is falling and nobody cares. I think I've heard this story somewhere before.
|
Bookmarks |
|
|