Registered: 08/23/05
Posts: 289
Loc: WI, MA, and NYC
The European Space Agency has selected targets for the first asteroid-deflecting mission to noticably change the orbit of a near-Earth object.
This is one disaster where my EDC might not help a whole lot. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> But I'm not drawing much comfort from the name of the mission: Don Quijote. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> (And let's hope they don't knock it into Brooklyn.)
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Registered: 02/06/04
Posts: 4020
Loc: Anchorage AK
Hmm, I wonder how many out of work oil drilling crews there are around the Gulf these days???
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