Asteroid Quotes

54 quotes by 41 authors

Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid. — Nathan Myhrvold
It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth. — Rusty Schweickart
We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape… — Rusty Schweickart
By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for… — Rusty Schweickart
Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility -… — Rusty Schweickart
An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is… — Rusty Schweickart
The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands or millions of… — Seth Shostak
The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid -… — Seth Shostak
A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft… — Buzz Aldrin
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past… — Edward M. Lerner
The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to… — Ridley Scott
Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to… — Andy Weir
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and… — Larry Niven
It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything. — Robert T. Bakker

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