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Old 03-02-2008, 05:28 PM
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Currently, NASA is hoping to turn up 90% of potentially hazardous asteroids larger than 1 kilometre wide by the end of 2008. But it says it does not have the funding to comply with a directive by the US Congress to find 90% of all space rocks down to 140 metres across. "If we could do that, then 99% of the risk associated with all near-Earth objects of all sizes would be retired"
Billions spent on knocking out long range missiles but no money for saving all life as we know it from huge chunks of rocks hurtling towards earth. It does happen and it will happen, the moons surface tells it all really
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