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NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense (www.theregister.com)

submitted 5 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] rsuri@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"Sustaining the space mission, disaster preparedness, and communications efforts across a 14-year timeline would be challenging due to budget cycles, changes in political leadership, personnel, and ever-changing world events," the report says.

First administration: "We must do something about the asteroid. I've started a plan to divert it, but it'll take several years."

Second administration: "The asteroid is a corrupt globalist conspiracy. We never needed to divert asteroids in the past, why do we supposedly need to spend all your hard-earned tax dollars on this all of a sudden? I will prove my anti-elitist attitudes by cancelling the asteroid program as soon as I take office."

Third administration: "Yes we recognize that the asteroid is a threat, but as we saw last time there's just too much political resistance to solving it. Let's focus on other priorities that we can solve."

[–] Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 months ago

Yea that and panic at the end !