There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts. — Rusty Schweickart 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
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
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
An asteroid could hit us at any moment. This is not - and also, the most successful kind of life on this… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
People have discovered asteroids in the Main Belt that outgas like comets, and things on cometary orbits that no longer outgas -… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I don't want people to spend their nights worrying about getting hit by asteroids. But I do want them to encourage their… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
I think Dawn has done an amazing job showing that asteroids aren't just hunks of rock. They're worlds - they're places an… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
The shuttle tomorrow is truly like laying the last spike on the transcontinental railroad, only much more so. And whether or not… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals… — Seth Shostak 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
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
“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
We've actually named asteroids for other famous women in history, like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. But it's really this… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
And you know, talk about something else is falling from the sky. And that is an asteroid. What's coming our way? Is… — Deborah Feyerick Copy Share Image
“The most important thing is not to work on things that other people are working on because otherwise all you'll do is… — David Jewitt Copy Share Image
We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? But… — Robert Schimmel Copy Share Image
When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
The first credible humans-to-Mars plans are starting to weave together in public-private partnerships. In fact, I can say with some authority that… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high… — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Amorphous forms [of ice], for example, are found naturally on comets, on asteroids, and the crystalline forms are found on Earth or… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
There is enough material in the Kuiper Belt to build anything out there. We could gobble up all the little asteroids, filtering… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.' — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The basic method to find asteroids hasn't changed much in hundreds of years. So asteroids in a telescope look just like stars… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
The nice thing about asteroids is that once you've found them, and once you have a good solid orbit on them, you… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Asteroids are often seen as a threat, but they are also an opportunity. The use of space resources holds a large potential… — Etienne Schneider Copy Share Image
I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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