[Frank_Discussion]

But... To be honest, Dr. W's "chickenlittleness" aside, this planet can mount a defense. We need to get started yesterday.

Actually, an outstanding way to deflect one of these things is to actually capture it and mine it for resources. There's technology that'll do this, if we'll only develop it.

[Ahban]

Good point. We should make it a goal now to change its path just enough so that we get a new moonlet. One that is only 30-50K miles up instead of 250,000. We could build a space station right into the moonlet, using it for raw materials that would not have to be lifted from Earth.