It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
While we didn't know the dinosaurs personally, we do know that they were wiped out by an asteroid impact. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Astronomers are using every technique at their disposal to discover and study asteroids. — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
Happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations... — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a haemorrhoid when it's on the outside… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Before the use of asteroids, the only significators of the feminine in traditional chart interpretation were the Moon and Venus. — Demetra George Copy Share Image
If an asteroid is coming toward you, you don't have to blow it up. You just have to slow it down long… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I love studying asteroids because they are relatively simple, just rocks in space. They can be understood with physics and described with… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make… — Daniel Goldin Copy Share Image
Luckily, there are some rocks left over from our earliest days, asteroids formed during our solar system's birth. Occasionally, some of them… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by… — Brian May Copy Share Image
If you can make a good picture that actually has some substance, that's doubly good nowadays 'cause most everybody else is trying… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar orbit for… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
When you look at Earth from that one picture, the one from space, it's really a rather attractive thing. I have nothing… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“In the past, men had projected their feminine qualities of emotions, nurturance, and sensitivity onto women. With the recent activation of the… — Demetra George Copy Share Image
Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“Regardless of where they strike, large asteroids would boil seas, fill the air with dust and acidic compounds, and perhaps induce carbon… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Now, once again, we find ourselves facing rising gas prices, and the question is: This time, are we going to learn from… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
With enough money and international coordination, we can push incoming asteroids out of Earth's path. We might even be able to bring… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Percy smiled at her - that sarcastic troublemaker smile that had annoyed her for years but eventually had become endearing. His sea-green… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth. — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
“[ Asteroids are ] the vermin of the skies. [ Asteroids can block objects of interest on astronomical photographs .]” — Walter Baade Copy Share Image
Richard Pilbrow's lighting can turn a coin into an asteroid and an idea into an apparition. — Jack Kroll Copy Share Image
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization. — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
If the Chinese are the first to the asteroids or the first to Mars, good for them, as far as I'm concerned. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image