Asteroids Quote by Dave Barry Download Open image “Happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations...” — Dave Barry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asteroids Bigs Earth Judging Realistic Simulation
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can… — Anonymous 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
The nice thing about asteroids is that once you've found them, and once you have a good solid orbit on them, you can predict… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Asteroids have hit the Earth millions of times. We can see them as shooting stars every night. When they get bigger, things get complicated.… — Rusty Schweickart 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 working on… — Timothy Noah 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 real possibility… — Rusty Schweickart 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 transportation, communication,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Changing the asteroid's velocity changes the time when the asteroid crosses Earth's orbit. After all, just because it crosses Earth's path doesn't mean there… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything. — Robert T. Bakker 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 because it's… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
When you have an asteroid threatening Earth, it's uncertain where it's going to hit until the last minute; the decision to take action has… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about being a guy is that women don't accept that you really are just a simple, pathetic, labrador retriever-like creature. That… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Despite the gulf, physical and cultural, between the United States and Japan, both societies are, in the end, made up of people, and people… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Before going on a diet you should consult your doctor, or at least send him some money. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I've said multiple times that the world's first trillionaire is going to be the person who exploits the resources of asteroids, the natural resources… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We could not wipe ourselves out with a nuclear war. I do not want so sound too positive. It would be a catastrophe, but… — Rusty Schweickart 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, fascist, capitalist,… — Slavoj Žižek 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 asteroid moving… — Wernher von Braun 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 space tourism… — Daniel Goldin Copy Share Image
Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Asteroids have hit the Earth millions of times. We can see them as shooting stars every night. When they get bigger, things get complicated.… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
When you look at Earth from that one picture, the one from space, it's really a rather attractive thing. I have nothing against the… — George Carlin 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 than asteroids. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Certainly whatever climate change and global warming means, we've got a big issue here. Right now, this civilization or this period that we're in… — Edgar Mitchell 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 get the… — David Jewitt Copy Share Image
