Is that A Vitamin?

Have you ever heard of the B612 Foundation?  I haven’t, until today that is.  And no, it has nothing to do with vitamins.  The B612 Foundation is in the business of lobbying Congress for monies.  Your money and my money, to move asteroids.  The piece is titled “Why Move an Asteroid?”, and it contains information on the why as presented to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space dealing with defense against asteroid impacts.  Here’s the answer to why.

"There is a 10 percent chance that during our lifetimes there will be a 70 meter asteroid that impacts Earth with energy 10 megatons (roughly equivalent to 700 simultaneous Hiroshima sized bombs). There is even a very remote one in 50,000 chance that you and I and everyone we know, along with most of humanity and human civilization, will perish together with the impact of a much larger kilometer or more sized asteroid. We now have the potential to change these odds."

The piece presents the B612 Foundation’s vision for developing “the potential,” no estimate on costs.

Via J. Orlin Grabbe.

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