World's Largest Digital Camera to Watch for Killer Asteroids

nationalgeographic ^ | June 22, 2010 | Brian Handwerk

[gulfcoast6]

Watching the Whie house?? Isn’t HE destroying the world?

[thackney]

1,400 megapixels

With the rate of technology changes, in 8 years we will have that on the iPhone.

[Made In The USA]

Yeah, but does it have red-eye correction?

Thing must take like a whole Sam’s Club worth of those expensive little lithium batteries....

[SunkenCiv]

I saw "Deep Impact" on, hmm, BluRay, nice and cheap, at the warehouse club tonight. :')

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks KoRn! A two-list ping.

If a planet-destroying asteroid is headed for Earth, scientists now have a much better chance of spotting it.

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[rdl6989]

Lol. I spent a few quarters on that one back in the day.

[upsdriver]

If a planet-destroying asteroid is headed for Earth....... it would solve a lot of our problems.

[LiberConservative]

Interesting. I just watched one of my favorite movies, “Deep Impact” last night for about the 5th time.

[SunkenCiv]

The Threat to Earth from Asteroids & Comets
http://pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/public/asteroid-threat/asteroid_threat.html