[Mr. Mojo]

The UN can't even wipe its own ass yet it plans to "take action" against an incoming asteroid?

[theDentist]

An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it...

Oh great. We're screwed for sure.

[EagleUSA]

Get ready for an Asteroid Tax.

[rellimpank]

--The so-called Gravity Tractor--

--as long as it's a John Deere or a Cat---not a Belarus--

[Nick Danger]

I know I speak for everyone when I say that I feel much safer knowing that the UN will protect me from asteroids and from asteroid-caused Global Smashing.

[RightWhale]

Latest in a swarm of asteroid threads.
The UN can do nothing. Repeal the Treaty.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[hsalaw]

An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said on Saturday.

I started laughing so hard at this first sentence, I couldn't read anything more. "The United Nations should assume responsibility" is just so exquisitely laughable. They can't assume responsibility for paying their own damn parking tickets; how can they protect us from an asteroid? Oh, just too funny!

[Sax]

The UN Security Counsel today approved a resolution condemning the incoming asteroid.

[mbynack]

I feel safer already now that the UN is involved. /Sarcarm

[avacado]

"U.N. urged to take action on asteroid threat"

Good! Keep those knuckleheads busy with something they can wrap their tiny brains around and out of our business!

[SteveMcKing]

NASA says the precise effect of a 460-foot (140-meter) object hitting the Earth would depend on what the asteroid was made of and the angle of impact.

I recall the opposite being taught- that it doesn't matter the angle or material. When the object hits, its matter is turned to energy; it explodes.

That's why craters appear as circles carved in the ground, even when objects enter at strange angles.

[Cold Heat]

We are all gonna die!

Eventually.......:-)

[Nick Danger]

You know, there might be an opportunity to make a buck here. As the date approaches, we'll be able to compute which country is going to be obliterated. We could offer them a deal. We'll nuke the thing for them, while it's still out in space, for the low, low price of — oh — seven hundred billion dollars.

[YOUGOTIT]

First. the UN has NO space vehicles, NO launch facilities, NO one who has the intelligence to launch a space rocket, so why are these people asking the UN to do something about a space rock that could totally devastate a 200 sq mile or more area of earth?

[JamesP81]

Astronomers are monitoring an asteroid named Apophis, which has a 1 in 45,000 chance of striking Earth on April 13, 2036.

Anybody care to wager how many Stargate jokes could be made on this thread...

[colorado tanker]

First we'd better send UN inspectors to the asteroid to see if it poses an "imminent" threat or if this is just more Bush lies.

[xcamel]

dupe:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787225/posts

[Vaquero]

yes...yes thats it....give them a make believe rocket ship to play with..let say in Switzerland and let them play buck rogers...

[Busywhiskers]

How bout we just pass a law against asteroids hitting the earth and call it good.