"It would take an extremely large spacecraft to……" — Rusty Schweickart
"It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth."
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16 Quotes by Rusty Schweickart
Rusty Schweickart has 16 quotes on this site.
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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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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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By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings,…
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More Asteroid Quotes
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On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or…
— Jon Stewart
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Happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations...
— Dave Barry
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And you know, talk about something else is falling from the sky. And that is an asteroid. What's coming our…
— Unknown Author
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We no longer need to discuss whether or not it is safe – over a decade and a half with…
— Mark Lynas
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It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man…
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
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When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman.…
— Gail Simone
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Eventually, I believe, everything evens out. Long ago an asteroid hit our planet and killed our dinosaurs. But in the…
— Jack Handey
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"Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once…
— Stephen Hawking
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We made and spent at least 10 million dollars. The thing is, we heard that the planet was going to…
— Spencer Pratt
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Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now…
— James Hansen
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Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all…
— Jared Diamond
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