The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth. — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
Happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations... — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Astronomers are using every technique at their disposal to discover and study asteroids. — Carrie Nugent 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Africa's a wreck and it's not because it was hit by an asteroid. It's a wreck largely because it was hit by… — Noam Chomsky 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
There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Asteroids have been hitting the moon for a long time, especially on the back side. — Robert Bigelow Copy Share Image