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
We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
“50 light years from Earth, there is a 2,600-mile-long asteroid made of diamond.” — Bathroom Readers' Institute Copy Share Image
“Hey, Kyle. You know what I can hit?" "What?" "Asteroid traveling at seventy-one kilometers per second. And if I can't, you're dead.” — Katie Kennedy Copy Share Image
It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything. — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
It's much more likely that an asteroid will strike the Earth and annihilate life as we know it than AI will turn… — Oren Etzioni 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
I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Asteroid detection, tracking, and defense of our planet is something that NASA, its interagency partners, and the global community take very seriously. — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
An asteroid impact is a preventable natural disaster. It's in part preventable because we have the technology, and it's in part preventable… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
“Outside the port, the slashed rock of the unnamed asteroid tumbled and spun in dynamics known only to the gods of chaos… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government… — Larry Niven 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
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
What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However many guys we have… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts. — Rusty Schweickart 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
“The world’s refusal to leave me out of its activities made me consider its destruction. Bring on the wave. Please, the asteroid.” — Adam Nevill Copy Share Image
Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
There are all these interesting rules about asteroid nomenclature. Once you discover it, you have the right to name it, but there's… — Carrie Nugent 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
I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Back in the day, I've heard, particularly with the near-Earth asteroids, there were some asteroid hunters that knew the names of every… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
An asteroid impact in the worst case scenario is a terrifying thing. It seems very uncontrollable: in popular culture, it's often a… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“He's weeping, his face dissolving in his hands. It's exhausting. People hiding behind the asteroid, like it's an excuse for poor conduct,… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
“Chiron reminds us that only through recognising and accepting our inner wounds can we find true healing.” — Lisa Tenzin-Dolma Copy Share Image
The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse? — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
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
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
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
An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
“Respectfully, sir, the asteroid did not make you leave her. The asteroid is not making anyone do anything. It's just a big… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
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