Talking about the "Alpha Space Foundation", which I found on the way down the CCNet page toward the extinction article.

"Clouds B Gone"???? Awareness-raising displays in shopping mals and convenience stroes???? Casinos and other amusements to raise funds to build lifeboats and anti-impactor systems????

They must be kidding...

It has to be a spoof site, it just has to...

Or (ever suspicious of a scam) - it's a handful of oh-so-clever types who think they can generate, and then cash in on, impactor hysteria by donning a thin disguise of humanitarian concern - just enough to hoodwink some philanthropic outfit with more money than brains. Start up the first casino and find a way to skim it - "operating costs" would probably get the job done.

If it's not a spoof, I could only hope a couple hundred kilos of asteroid lands on their server at 17,000 mph.

Now I'll go read the extinction article....

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