INCOMING!

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Just when we thought it was safe to camp out in the boonies:

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26271024-952,00.html



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[caseydog]

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caseydog,

Yes! That's the preventative fix for the problem: Bots in space as interceptors!

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The earth gets hit by more than 6 tons of space rock and dust every day, it's just that most of it hits in the ocean or the unpopulated majority of the earth....
There was a basketball size explosion over western Ontario, just this Sunday morning caught on an all-sky camera.
The NEAR project is only able to track astreoids, larger than the mentioned 3 meter size of the Indonesian asteroid effectively

As Jack Horkheimer is so fond of saying "Keep Looking Up" oh and maybe wear a hard hat.