It's like E P is on drugs or something. What a rich fantasy life he must lead.

After they find the big one what then? They spent all the money on a crazy Moonbase instead of technologies to do something about it once you discover a "killer" coming at us. BTW E.P., the public couldn't care less about your worries. Don't believe me? Go to a Mall. Bring a clipboard with a few surveys and ask them.

Something like...

What should be the highest priority for NASA currently:

Finish the Space Station?
Lowering launch cost so space tourism can happen?
Build a replacement for the aging Space Shuttle Fleet?
A manned return to the Moon?
Discovering all possible killer Space Rocks by building a manned Moonbase?
A manned mission to Mars?

If you just hand them the survey and try not to influence them...
The answers will shock you into reality, maybe...

--Chris Vancil