Private Money Saving Us from Roids
Microsoft alumni Bill Gates and Charles Simonyi donated a combined $30 million to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), keeping it on track for first light in 2014. One of LSST's chief missions is to detect and catalog NEOs.
One wonders the fate awaiting humanity. Yeah, saved from the next Dino-Killer style impact only to be forced to use Vista as Gates sucks the last dime outa the customers he saved. Clever!