yeah, great, 'Why isn't NASA doing more about this?'
Let's blame an underfunded agency whose government won't give them enough to accomplish what they ask of them (remember how we're suppose to go to mars sometime?). NASA is doing great things with little funding it has, so let's not forget how expensive space travel/exploration/intra-sol magic really is. The agency is pretty much controlled in what it does by government directives, how can we blame them for not being able to pursue every space plan?
Plus this article sure does a number on statistical fallacies, 'Even if space strikes are likely only once every million years, that doesn’t mean a million years will pass before the next impact—the sky could suddenly darken tomorrow'
Yeah, great, fear-mongering space object impacts. Remember people: you could win the lottery tomorrow. But you won't.
The odds that a potentially devastating space rock will hit Earth this century may be as high as 1 in 10. So why isn’t NASA trying harder to prevent catastrophe?
Because they may be 1 it 10. They are not really 1 in 10.
The issue is finding the occurrence of such events in history. The more you find, the more likely it makes such an event. We have a lower bound that is most certainly an underestimate.
NASA isn't even working hard to find a more accurate estimate.
“The odds of a space-object strike during your lifetime may be no more than the odds you will die in a plane crash—but with space rocks, it’s like the entire human race is riding on the plane.”
Plus this article sure does a number on statistical fallacies, 'Even if space strikes are likely only once every million years, that doesn’t mean a million years will pass before the next impact—the sky could suddenly darken tomorrow'
Yeah, great, fear-mongering space object impacts. Remember people: you could win the lottery tomorrow. But you won't.