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
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
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
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
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
Money is becoming increasingly plastic and digital. If there is a major disaster, let's say an asteroid strike, we'll go back to… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
On the whole, asteroids tend to leave Earth alone. And day to day, there really isn't cause for most people to give… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“I've always been amazed that asteroids can fly in groups for millions of years and never touch each other or connect. They… — René Wagner Ash/Kanwulf Copy Share Image
We need early warning systems, technologies to deflect an asteroid - and we need political preparedness as well. It needs to be… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
It would be great if we were on multiple planets, but I think that's unrealistic. Hawking says we have to be on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
There are physical bodies, physical worlds that astronauts could visit, that we haven't found yet. Especially, there's these close approaches of asteroids.… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
We made and spent at least 10 million dollars. The thing is, we heard that the planet was going to end in… — Spencer Pratt Copy Share Image
Eventually, I believe, everything evens out. Long ago an asteroid hit our planet and killed our dinosaurs. But in the future, maybe… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Just speaking for myself, I think the return of people to the Moon has a lot to offer for understanding the formation… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The best thing to do is to study these asteroids so we know the range of parameters we would have to deal… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
Most of the solar system resides beyond the orbits of the asteroids. There is more to learn there about general planetary processes… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
We no longer need to discuss whether or not it is safe – over a decade and a half with three trillion… — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image
By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Newsreader: A huge asteroid could destroy Earth! And by coincidence, that's the subject of tonight's miniseries. Dogbert: In science, researchers proved that… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration -- be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
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