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Asteroid Wanted in NASA Project

Posted April 06, 2013 4:47 PM

From NYT > Science:

The $105 million proposal would begin planning on a two-stage program in which a robotic spacecraft would grab a small asteroid and drag it back toward Earth.

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04/06/2013 5:05 PM

What a novel idea! It is only a matter of time before those dastardly Chinese copy this world leading idea and release plans of doing this themselves....

...oh, wait. Nevermind.

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04/09/2013 8:32 AM

SSHhhhhhhhh !!! ((they are the ones we're gonna borrow the money from to do this))
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Re: Asteroid Wanted in NASA Project

04/07/2013 11:23 AM

Who pays? Bruce Willis?

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04/08/2013 4:59 AM

Er, sorry, where was it supposed to land, again?

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