Asteroids Quotes

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This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. — L. Neil Smith
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. — Mark Twain
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
As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy of hurricanes and… — Deb Caletti
Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable… — Al Gore
After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out… — Dean Koontz
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone… — Dean Koontz
They say asteroids hit the moon pretty often, which is how the moon gets its crater, but this one is going to be the biggest… — Susan Beth Pfeffer
todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school. — Susan Beth Pfeffer
...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to… — Douglas Adams
Percy smiled at her - that sarcastic troublemaker smile that had annoyed her for years but eventually had become endearing. His sea-green eyes were as… — Rick Riordan
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume… — Dave Barry
Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar orbit for the very first… — Rusty Schweickart
The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees… — Seth Shostak
The strongest signals leaking off our planet are radar transmissions, not television or radio. The most powerful radars, such as the one mounted on the… — Seth Shostak
Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals of our society,… — Seth Shostak

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