[lbryce]

Mechanical arms or even a big bag may be used to grab an asteroid and bring it to earth.

Even a big bag.

How sad. How very, very sad. It's all gone, gone, gone. The exhiliaration of that magnificent beast, the greatest technological achievement ever, lifting off the in a slow rise to the heavens, the power, the raw power thundering across the landscape, rising in unparalleled beauty and grace, the very testament to American ingenuity, technology, the late great Saturn V, gave us the reason to dream but now it's all gone, not even to dream. Along with the moon bases, lunar vacation plans, missions to Mars, accelerated exploration of the planets, Europa, Titan, new rocket technology, warp drive, now all we've got left in the NASA Really, Really Big Plans is just this one big, empty FOOKING Bag, a couple of fatwas, a Muslim shutting it all down.

For shame. An unmitigated outright disgrace.

So, NASA wants to corral in an asteroid. Well, too bad. The fatwa against asteroid capture has already been enabled. Some Islamic huckster in Boise, Idaho has forbidden any such thing as of this morning. So, NASA, find yourself something else to do.

And next time, go with a less pompous mission title, like maybe Asteroid Corral 'Em Up, instead of Asteroid Grand Challenge and the Asteroid Redirect Mission.

[VRW Conspirator]

Is this a Muslim asteroid?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I’ve got a nasty proposal on how to capture a small asteroid.

Send Michele FLOTUS up into space. Let her use her substantial bottom to grab the asteroid (much like that gatormouth-rocket grabbed the astronauts in the James Bond film). Then bring them both back to earth, or just bring back the asteroid and leave the leftist hemorrhoid in orbit.

She could be our second moon.

[Flag_This]

"Nasa believes the earth is safe from an asteroid collision for at least a century"

Based on what, exactly? Sounds like something they pulled from their asteroids.

[mountainlion]

How does that further muslim outreach.

[righttackle44]

Could they capture a bigfoot instead?

[FreeAtlanta]

Russia is holding us hostage with Astronaut launches and retrievals ($71 million, if they even agree to do it now that Obama has poked them with his sickly finger).

Had Obama not allowed the Space Shuttle to go into forced retirement before a good replacement was operational, that would be one less thing Putin would be holding over us and our weakly little Kenyan.

[equalator]

Nasa is all about muslim outreach and global warming these days. My how we have fallen.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I know! Let's use a chunk of aerogel to capture micrometeorites and return them to earth.

Who needs a big rock?

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Wants to capture an asteroid? When they cannot even send a single guy into space? What a joke. Maybe the Chinese will do it while they colonize Mars.