Well looky here, it seems as if someone is finally taking the issue of tracking asteroids a little bit more seriously these days, and boy, they've already found one with a 1 in 14,000 chance of hitting us by 2036. That'll be me mighty handy for solving the social security problem! However it seems no one in Washington wants to cough up $300M track the potential earth splatterer more closely - apparently because its too far in the future, unlike the social security problem which of cause doesn't run out of funding until about ten years afterwards
It seems to me that if the government wont fund such a mission then perhaps some beneificent billion could lob the required hunk of cash in its direction. Its a 1 in 14,000 chance it would make much of a difference, but what a legacy if it did. Just think, we could have Bill Gates as our great saviour - assuming of course the tracking beacon they want to tack onto the asteriod doesn't suffer a blue screen of death before its mission is accomplished.
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