OFF: The dangers of Cosmic Rock

[Bill & Cynthia]

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> They'd have to start by investigating asteroids and comets to figure out
> HOW to defend against them. Real life ain't Hollywood and even if we did
> build the capability to nuke 'em far out enough to have an effect, it'd
> almost certainly make things worse in some cases as it'd alter one big
> bang somewhere into thousands of medium bangs everywhere.

Plonking a moderate sized asteroid into the Pacific would be a bit of a
bugger. Having rocks the size of buses crashing into your back yard would be
a bigger bugger.

What those astromoners discovered,
while they were staring out into the dark
was charm, strangeness and.....FARQ!!!