Asteroids Quote by Rusty Schweickart

Asteroids are often seen as a threat, but they are also an opportunity. The use of space resources holds a large potential for future…

— Etienne Schneider

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

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

Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing…

— Jared Diamond

Asteroids are our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors.

— Carrie Nugent

On the whole, asteroids tend to leave Earth alone. And day to day, there really isn't cause for most people to give them any…

— Carrie Nugent

People have to take seriously the threat coming from asteroids and what it represents. As Chelyabinsk reminded us, we have to take asteroids as…

— Kesha Rogers

It has only been within my lifetime that asteroids have been considered a credible threat to our planet. And since then, there's been a…

— Carrie Nugent

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

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

— Peter Diamandis

An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this…

— Rusty Schweickart

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