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Originally Posted by Excrono
You know, I have to count myself as gullable for getting worked up about this same story each time it is posted (with a year seperating them.) I should just bother to look at the date in the source article more closely.
That isn't to say that other near Earth objects could already be headed for a simmilar course, but then again any number of things could happen between then and now. The main thing is that the threat is very real, and the possiblity that we would be caught with out pants down (discovering a rock that is weeks away from impact) is also ever present. So, the US (and other countries) should really make meteor defense and funding to identify these objects more of a priority.
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Well some of them are impossible to spot in time before it's too late. Comets come to mind here. You really cant see them too well untill they start aproaching the sun. So they're pretty much invisible untill they get closer. Then when we see them there's not enough time left to do anything about it. I dont think any amount of funding could change this because you just cant see them. Then take into account that we can only monitor a small part of the sky.. and it becomes an incredibly hard task to spot them all.
We're actually pretty lucky.. Alot of misses plus we have a big gigantic ball of gas that shields us from most of them. :P
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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