Bad way to spend money

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E.P. Grondine — 1/3/2002 4:12:00 PM (archived)

I'll differ with Benson on this. I think it would be a waste of money flying men off to any old asteroid, before we've found the next one that's going to hit the Earth.

Will manned spaceflight be necessary for dealing with the NEO hazard? My guess is that it will:

http://www.geocities.com/epgrondine

I don't think men are going to visit Near Earh asteroids until 1999 KY 26 is exploited for Mars. Perhaps then KY 26 will be used to "improve" the planet; perhaps KY 26 will be used as a natural cycler. But in either case, that's going to be sometime at least a hundred years down the road.

EP

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Manned NEA Mission - Stars In My Eyes - 1/2/2002 5:58:10 PM
- Re: Manned NEA Mission - gbaikie - 1/3/2002 7:01:42 PM
  - Read more carefully :-) - Stars In My Eyes - 1/3/2002 8:34:20 PM
    - Re: Read more carefully :-) - gbaikie - 1/4/2002 7:26:23 PM
      - The cost of two shuttle flights..... - Stars In My Eyes - 1/5/2002 7:54:05 PM
      - Re: Read more carefully :-) - Nick Hoffman - 1/5/2002 3:26:12 PM
        
        Re: Read more carefully :-) - gbaikie - 1/5/2002 12:36:03 PM
    - Re: Read more carefully :-) - gbaikie - 1/3/2002 7:03:51 PM
    - Just thinking out loud - Larry J - 1/3/2002 10:02:30 AM
      - Re: Just thinking out loud - phil - 1/3/2002 10:07:50 AM
        
        Re: Just thinking out loud - Larry J - 1/3/2002 10:50:11 AM
        
        Re: Just thinking out loud - Tom Brosz - 1/3/2002 11:23:55 AM
        
        Great going guys :-) - Stars In My Eyes - 1/3/2002 4:09:08 PM
- Bad way to spend money - E.P. Grondine - 1/3/2002 4:12:00 PM
  - No, that wasn't the question :-) - Stars In My Eyes - 1/3/2002 8:50:11 PM
    - "How" is the easy part - E.P. Grondine - 1/3/2002 2:50:14 PM
      - BTW I agree with you - Stars In My Eyes - 1/3/2002 4:37:47 PM
  - NEO - RobVG - 1/3/2002 5:24:16 PM
    - Re: NEO - Raoul - 1/3/2002 6:44:27 PM
      - Re: NEO - E.P. Grondine - 1/3/2002 2:59:41 PM
- Re: Manned NEA Mission - Robt Clements - 1/3/2002 10:09:52 AM
  - Cool! - Stars In My Eyes - 1/3/2002 4:32:38 PM
    - Medium-cool - Robt Clements - 1/3/2002 6:07:08 PM

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