[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Giant Air Bag Could Save Earth

From the title, I thought this might be a story about Al Sharpton.

[Rick.Donaldson]

Does this mean we've finally found a good use for Rosie O'Donnell?

[TN4Liberty]

comets are very loose conglomerations of pristine matter

Sounds like the pledge class in a sorority.

[tictoc]

Everything considered, the chances of being killed by an asteroid are considered to be about one in 12,000, compared to the one in 10,000 possibility of being killed in an airline crash, he said.

World pop. = six billion. Divided by 10,000 = 600,000, divided by avg. life expectancy (let's say 60 years) = 10,000. Are there really 10,000 people killed in airline crashes every year?

And how do they figure the chances of being killed by an asteroid - when nobody in recorded history has ever been killed by one?

[Tulsa Brian]

I thought Al Gore and the rest of the greenie weenies WANTED something bad to happen to earth mother in order to show the rest of us the error of our ways. Why would he turn away an asteroid?

[MrConfettiMan]

Dr. Hermann Burchard suggests an air pillow...

Might I suggest something else...

[LouD]

Everything considered, the chances of being killed by an asteroid are considered to be about one in 12,000, compared to the one in 10,000 possibility of being killed in an airline crash, he said.

Bullsh*t on both counts. I'm guessing the odds for being killed in an air crash are significantly higher than that (although I don't have the data in front of me) - As for being killed by asteroids, I would dare him to name a single person, ever who was killed by an asteroid. (Maybe he was confused, and thought they meant hemmorhoids.)

[varon]

One suggestion is to attach a giant solar sail -- something like a "20 square-kilometre bubble-gum wrapper" -- that would use the wind created by high-energy particles emitted by the sun to shift the asteroid

I can just imagine, if this was done, years in the future in some unknown galaxy, a resident intelligent being looking up in the sky and seeing this comet with a sail go floating by and saying “what the F*** is that and where in the H*** did it come from?” ;-)

[Cyber Liberty]

I'd love to see the Environmental Impact Statement on this....

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

A giant space bra could catch and lift two asteroids at the same time.

[BenLurkin]

[GeronL]

I hope they don’t take my air