NASA needs $1bn to protect Earth from asteroids!!

[Kiran.dks]

NASA needs $1bn to protect Earth from asteroids!!
Congress says it's too much



Nasa scientists have warned that it will cost too much money to track potentially dangerous asteroids and comets which could threaten the Earth.

In a report previewed by a Planetary Defence Conference in Washington on Monday, officials said it would cost about $1bn to find and track around 90 per cent of the estimated 20,000 potentially hazardous near earth objects (NEOs) by 2020.

"We know what to do, we just don't have the money," said Simon Worden, director of Nasa's Ames Research Centre.

The report follows a request from US Congress in 2005 for Nasa to create a plan to find, track and possibly deflect the most dangerous NEOs.

Nasa already tracks some of the largest space debris, of at least 1,000m in diameter, but hopes to track smaller objects down to a diameter of 140m which are still large enough to cause major devastation.

These NEOs pose a significant threat even if they do not collide directly with the planet. If they were to touch the planet's atmosphere, the shockwaves created by explosions from the heat could still be catastrophic.

Nasa has offered three possible solutions. The first is to create a ground telescope dedicated to the job of hunting and tracking asteroids. This would work in conjunction with other agencies' telescopes and cost around $800m.

The second, but most expensive, option is to launch a space infrared telescope dedicated to the job costing an estimated $1bn.

The third, and cheapest, option would be to use existing telescopes from agencies around the world at a cost of around $300m.

Unfortunately the White House has rejected the proposals, deeming them all too costly.

"The decision of the agency is that we just cannot do anything about it right now," said Nasa programme scientist Lindley Johnson.

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[Third Eye]

1bn=100 Crores
Thx for the news.

[freebird]

read btw lines =to protect America

[piyush gupta]

America needs donation from Iran and iraq

[Aberforth]

Really, 1 billion dollars isn't that big amount of money to spend in 14 years, NASA budget as of now averages about 15 billion dollars a year. Plus Bill Gates with his fortune could easily donate a billion, nothing much to save the earth. He has donated 5 billion to his trust. I think this news could be some kind of prank or typographical error.

@tech_mastermind - 1 billion is 100 crores, not 10.

[piyush gupta]

NASA may sell Area-69 for this money

[gxsaurav]

give them, apple, MS , Google, Infosys, Tata, Mittal, bin Laden plz donate them...abe this is required bhai

[piyush gupta]

U forgot George Bush

Donate him to Iran

[Third Eye]

Originally Posted by Aberforth

@tech_mastermind - 1 billion is 100 crores, not 10.

my mistake

[joey_182]

ok tell me where to sign....??

[Kiran.dks]

US says it is too costly. But thought provokes whether such protection is really required? We know that Earth is in danger of collision with many asteriods. Some are small and some are the size of mount everest which could destroy complete earth. The small ones are capable of vanishing a continent on earth. I think that such protection is needed in future. Not only for earth, but many communication satellities and even the Space Station are in danger of collision. Now we have the technology to destroy such asteriods and see that Humans doesn't go extinct.

I request Moderators to add a poll to this thread.

Q: Is such protection needed for Earth? Is it really justified?
Poll Options:
i) Absolutely required
ii) No, complete waste of time & money
iii) Can't Say
iv) Who cares? Let God decide Earth's fate!

[gxsaurav]

^^^^ yo brother, god won't come to save earth ok, humans have to do it themselves

They should not succeed. Let the asteroid strike .

[Kiran.dks]

Originally Posted by gx_saurav

^^^^ yo brother, god won't come to save earth ok, humans have to do it themselves

Oh dear...It's just a poll option! Some might need that option too. Hence jus included. I know that God is not going to come on a special aircraft and destroy the asteriod like a Superman Hero....

[piyush gupta]

Originally Posted by Kiran_tech_mania

Superman Hero....

Kisi ne mujhe bulaya
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Originally Posted by Kiran_tech_mania

Superman Hero....

Kisi ne mujhe bulaya

[Lucky_star]

Where is Koolbluez, Our Superman?

[piyush gupta]

Originally Posted by Lucky_star

Where is Koolbluez, Our Superman?

Busy in searching girls

[Kiran.dks]

Originally Posted by thunderbird.117

They should not succeed. Let the asteroid strike .

Why would you say like that? Zindagi se pareshan hogaye kya??
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Originally Posted by Lucky_star

Where is Koolbluez, Our Superman?

See through your telescopes, Superman is already up there in the sky..looking for astero girls!