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Senator: NASA to lasso asteroid, bring it closer
Associated Press ^
| April 05, 2013
| SETH BORENSTEIN
Posted on 04/05/2013 1:21:15 PM PDT by oxcart
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posted on
04/05/2013 1:21:15 PM PDT
by
oxcart
To: oxcart
What could possibly go wrong?
/ does it need to be said?
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posted on
04/05/2013 1:23:02 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
To: oxcart
We'we'we gotta save the Bbbuilding and Loan!
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posted on
04/05/2013 1:23:24 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(LBJ declared war on poverty and lost. Barack Obama declared war on prosperity and won. /csmusaret)
To: oxcart
“Nelson, who is chairman of the Senate Science and Space Subcommittee”
and, therein, is the problem...
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posted on
04/05/2013 1:24:13 PM PDT
by
illiac
(If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
To: oxcart
Then astronauts would explore it in 2021. If we were to start today could we even get back to orbit by 2021 without hitching a ride from the Russians?
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posted on
04/05/2013 1:24:21 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
To: oxcart
The Obama administration is involved? What could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
04/05/2013 1:24:42 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
To: oxcart
An Islamoroid? I didn’t know we had any of those. Well, if NASA can make if feel good about itself, I’m probably all for it too.
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posted on
04/05/2013 1:25:05 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Dude! Where's my Bill of Rights?)
To: oxcart
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posted on
04/05/2013 1:25:14 PM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
To: oxcart
Reminds me of Ted Stevens and his "series of tubes."
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posted on
04/05/2013 1:29:38 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
To: oxcart
Why do I think this story is running about four days late.
Dateline probably should have been: 4/1/13?
Just axing
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posted on
04/05/2013 1:30:20 PM PDT
by
Tupelo
(Old, Bald, Ugly, Fat and Broke in Arizona)
To: oxcart
To: smoothsailing
Hows that new wooden Space Shuttle coming along?
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posted on
04/05/2013 1:34:51 PM PDT
by
Conserev1
("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
To: Conserev1
It’ll never get off the ground, the tree huggers are protesting! :)
To: oxcart
Wouldn’t it be faster if we land it on North Korea?
To: oxcart
The money would be used to find the right small asteroid. I wish Ears would leave science to the professionals and stop interjecting his 99 IQ into the mix.
To minimize the risk, this asteroid they're talking about had better be smaller than the one that just struck Russia last month (that baby could've conceivably taken out a large city, had the parameters been a little different), in which case, a hundred million bucks seems excessive.
Better to leave it where it is, imo, and send a robotic probe to it, than bring it back here. Then, if it's found to have lots of platinum, gold, rubies, whatever, let the robots mine it in place and bring the good stuff back, while leaving the worthless stuff where it is.
To: Conserev1
Hows that new wooden Space Shuttle coming along?
Here ya go:
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posted on
04/05/2013 1:39:41 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Whitey, I miss you so much. Take care, pretty girl. (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012))
To: oxcart
I thought NASA main objective was to make mooslims feel welcome
To: oxcart
President Barack Obama and NASA are planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon...
And yet the White House remains closed to school kids.
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posted on
04/05/2013 1:43:22 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: LibWhacker
Lets not also dismiss the problem of gravitation. It won’t happen fast, but parking a rock at a sufficient distance from the moon could cause enough wobble to disrupt tides, weather, aurorae, etc.
This is a harebrained scheme that could cause real world problems. We’d be better off parking it at a La Grange point and taking trips out to study it.
Nelson is an embarrassment.
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posted on
04/05/2013 1:43:53 PM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: oxcart
If they can do this, maybe they should bring an asteroid to earth to keep Guam from tipping over.
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posted on
04/05/2013 1:44:16 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(Obama lied, Stevens died.)
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