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Re: (meteorobs) Earth Defense
In a message dated 98-03-12 09:20:11 EST, Maj Dave Garrison, USAF Ret writes:
<< Perhaps the press release describing the "Asteroid of 2028" this morning
will generate the type of public interest needed to create a sense of urgency
concerning "Earth Defense" for the not-so-distant future. Wouldn't it be
ironic, since science fiction writers have known for generations that the
only
way to unify the peoples of the Earth is for the Earth to be threatened
"externally" with it's destruction. >>
Eath Defense, there won't be any Earth Defense. There was a news story
yesterdsay here in NY having the Pentagon and NASA fighting over whose
responsibility it would be to destroy it. Pentagon said its was a "space
issue" and that it was Nasa's baby. Meanwhile Nasa was saying it's their job
to find and track rogue asteroids and that it was the military's job of
destroying it.
What I'd like to know is how do they plan exactly to destroy these things?
There is no way.
Kevin