"An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90……" — 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 called extinction."
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Rusty Schweickart
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16 Quotes by Rusty Schweickart
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As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how…
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From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe,…
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You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.
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The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment…
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This whole issue of limits to growth, which provides a psychological, as well as a physical, cap on potential expansion…
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All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.
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It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
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Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.
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It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not…
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We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to…
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No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.
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Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar…
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