NASA to run out of funds to find large asteroids

Originally posted by dragnet53
reply to post by stereologist

 

I believe some post here on ATS so yes. You can tell who they are.

Really? Who are they? I for one would like to know who to put certain questions to. How did you determine who they are?

Originally posted by Boomer1941
If NASA or the Federal Government knew an asteroid hit was eminent, huge and unstoppable don't think for one minute the populace would get a warning.

All information about new asteroid discoveries is published before anyone can even be sure if a potentially hazardous asteroid is a real and unstoppable threat or just another near earth asteroid. Amateur contributions help determine the exact orbit and find the true threat level posed. If it turned out that an impact was inevitable the basic information would already be in the hands of amateurs before anyone could even think to censor it. There has been at least one instance where it was believed that an impact threat from a newly discovered asteroid was very high and imminent, and it was an amateur who ruled out the possibility of impact shortly before the news went all the way up the chain of command.

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can't say then it would be removed as off topic and they have a huge following on ATS.

reply to post by dragnet53


Chance it. Try U2U. Open a new thread and that topic. You have lots of choices to express yourself.