Yes, there are a lot of pressing problems, and impact is mong them.
We have 64 fragments of comet Schwassmann Wachmann 3 heading towards the Earth in 2022, and asteroid 2004 MN4 will pass be the Earth under the geosynchronous satellites in 2029, and no one is exactly quite sure where it will end up afterwards. None of these objects are theoretical, and 16 years from now is not all that far away.
Every year NASA gets around 15,000 million dollars. The people who pay the taxes expect NASA to provide at least minimally for their safety from these, and their representatives in the House and Senate agreed and passed the Brown Ammendment. It only takes a small part of that $15,000 million to provide that capability.
If you want to cancel manned flight to Mars and use the money to address those other pressing problems, please do. I have no objections.
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- It's a puzzlement.
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- Something like the AAVSO or ALPO.
- re: Something like the AAVSO or ALPO.
- Excuse me, but amateurs can not provide warning of an impactor
- Something like the AAVSO or ALPO.
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- Cost-benefit
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