Not Enough Money To Defend Earth
Finding Doomsday Asteroids, editorial, NY Times
“How much effort should we expend to ward off the possibility that an asteroid might some day collide with Earth? Space experts attending a recent conference in Washington lamented the failure of the federal government – indeed, of the entire world – to take the threat seriously enough. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, at virtually the same moment, advised Congress on steps that could be taken to find and divert threatening asteroids only to conclude that it couldn’t afford them.”