[xelasnave]

The creation of a hole in the ground fits my definition of blowing things up just a little bit.

And I was thinking that with low gravity ( which I merely assume) any material displaced should be of concern..perhaps not with this exercise but come the day we are impacting something to prevent a future collision the possible distribution of material would seem undesirable and so although this is only a small scale experiment one could expect it would need upscaling to head off the sort of collisions we will determine as having potential for extinction type events...And this is an asteroid which upon my understanding are likely to be smaller than comets which may offer the biggest threat...my point so you won't have to wait any longer is...an asteroid probably has little risk of falling to pieces on such an impact whereas I "feel" (in a scientific sort of way) that a comet will generally be much more prone to break up...

I just wish they had asked me first.

Anyways on the positive I am very very pleased that attention and energy is going in this direction.

In my view the threat of an impact is ignored and yet such has greater potential to end our world than climate change or an epidemic of severe head aches.

One reason why I think we need to know about the age of the recently found creator under the ice in Greenland is not to see it shore up any hypothesis re mega fauna extinction but to know that we had such a large life changing impact in effect "yesterday"...as we know stuff is out there and yet we happily think it will never happen to us...that mentality is like building near a volcano or on a fault line and thinking that eruptions and earthquakes only happened in the olden days.

I have called for the construction of battle stars many times.

Huge colonies ..think mega international space station with hydroponic gardens and lots of guns...where we can shuffle off (shuttle off?) all the folk obsessed with wars and military mentality in general so they can intercept the various aliens hoards that will at any moment invade..it's no good saying we should build battle stars once they have attacked..but these battle stars could also head off all the things that could impact the Earth...I will draw up some plans after dinner. Probably start them off as prisons as that has worked in the past to get people to somewhere no one wants to be...

Alex