This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. — L. Neil Smith 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Small bodies in our solar system, like comets and asteroids, help us understand how the solar system formed and provide opportunities to… — John M. Grunsfeld 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
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
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
If you were to stand on an asteroid in the main belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter in our solar system,… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that… — Nolan Bushnell 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
“Asteroids are craggy chunks of rock. Comets are balls of dirt, ice, and frozen gases. And meteors are, quite simply, whatever falls… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources… — Buzz Aldrin 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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