The science section of the NYTimes covers the lack of funding NASA is currently dealing with (and has been dealing with) in its search for NEOs that could seriously ruin your day.
Here’s the end of the piece: “It may be subtle,” he said, “but failure of the international decision process is the most likely reason that we’ll take a hit in the future.” – Rusty Schweickart (yes, the astronaut)
Statisticians can come up with all kinds of estimates of the liklihood that something might kill you – your chances of being in a fatal plane crash, your chances of getting hit by lightening, your chance of being underneath an asteroid that decides to immolate itself in our atmosphere.
So. I’d like to know what the chances are that an idiot politician will fail to do something intelligent that might result in my death…?
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