March 08, 2007
Death From Above
NASA is saying that it doesn't have the budget to pay for efforts to find and catalog asteroids that could collide with the Earth. I really don't get NASA's priorities. The agency seems willing to spend billions on a space station that has never really lived up to its promise of producing solid scientific research, but it won't invest in a project with little risk and a huge upside--namely, preserving the human race. And on most days, I tend to be on the "save humanity" side of the fence.
Posted by wintermute2_0 at March 8, 2007 08:39 PM