At 08:11 AM Saturday 7/30/2005, you wrote:
This is the same asteroid that they thought would hit the Earth in 2029 and
then they retracted that statement a few days later.
If the probability of impact does go up, I wonder just how much political
fighting there will be over budgets, methods and the actual need to try to
divert this asteroid. There's always going to be someone that disagrees
that it will actually hit Earth.
Not that I think there is a conspiracy, but the timing of this news is very
coincidental after the successful comet impact. If I were going to try to
win support for a mission to divert an asteroid, I think I would have waited
until after a successful mission too.
Or maybe the solar system is shooting back.
BTW, I wonder if that Russian astrologer who sued over the Deep Impact
mission already knew about and took into account the "tenth planet"
announced yesterday?
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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