U.N. Urged to Take Action Against Killer Asteroids

FoxNews.com ^ | Wednesday, November 26, 2008

[Joiseydude]

VIENNA, Austria — It is disaster planning on a galactic scale: Space experts want to come up with a contingency plan on what to do in case a killer asteroid collides with Earth.

The experts, including former American astronaut Rusty Schweickart, told U.N. officials Tuesday that the international community needs a plan to counter so-called Near Earth Objects in advance of the potential catastrophe.

Deflecting asteroids — or at least evacuating people in areas where they might strike — could save millions of lives.

"This is a natural disaster, which is larger, potentially, than any other natural disaster we know of," Schweickart said. "However, it is preventable ... that's a very important thing to keep in mind. But it is our responsibility to take action to do that."

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Calling Harry Stamper...

[NCC-1701]

[Frantzie]

Asteroids are demanding a $500 gazillion dollar bailout. Why not?

[Night Hides Not]

Space experts want to come up with a contingency plan on what to do in case a killer asteroid collides with Earth.

I'd rather the contingency plan focus on what to do before a killer asteroid collides with Earth.

Who in the hell is editing this $hit?

[wally_bert]

[theDentist]

They want the UN to control it, but the US to man it and pay the lion’s share of it. Sorry, any killer satellites in space should be aiming downwards towards NK, Iran, tribal villages of Pakistan, Venezuela, and of course, whales.

[theDentist]

They want the UN to control it, but the US to man it and pay the lion’s share of it. Sorry, any killer satellites in space should be aiming downwards towards NK, Iran, tribal villages of Pakistan, Venezuela, and of course, whales.

[Vaquero]

lets hope the one that gets through is small enough to just destroy 1 small city and lets pray that it hits that particular city right after the inauguration.

[zadox]

No worries: B.O. will talk to the asteroid....

[mrsmith]

All galatic problems can be best solved by a macho guy with a hot spaceship and a hot babe.

I doubt the UN could find any of those.

[TonyStark]

This will never result in any UN action for the simple reasons that:

A) You can't extort payoffs from a space rock.
B) Diverting an asteroid might save Israel.
C) It is impossible to subvert a free asteroid into a commie dictatorship.
D) No AIDS victims on asteroid.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

These UN a-holes would do better to work on eliminating killer hemmorroids.

[KarlInOhio]

Just tell the UN that there are Venusian women in refugee camps on the asteroid and their "peacekeepers" will be right on top of them...er, it... right on top of it.

[MaxMax]

Quick, create a new world tax.
Then find yet another reason to tax the world.

[TheGeezer]

You know, there is some stuff you just can’t plan for.

[FrankR]

Send UN troops up their, so they can rape and pillage those asteriod womens. They are UNecessary.

[ApplegateRanch]

It wil be very, very expensive, but if it saves just one planet....

[IronJack]

File this under “Ways to Waste Money on a Grand Scale.”

[GSWarrior]

Hot fudge sundae falls on Tuesday this year.

[AFreeBird]

Geez, the UN can't even figure out how to respond to genocide in some third world countries here on Earth.

And Obama democrats will just claim that the asteroids are misunderstood victims and we should hold hand with them around the campfire and sing Kum-by-ya..