NASA Can’t Pay for Killer Asteroid Hunt

The cost to find at least 90 percent of the 20,000 potentially hazardous asteroids and comets by 2020 would be about $1 billion, according to a report NASA will release later this week. The report was previewed Monday at a Planetary Defense Conference in Washington. Congress in 2005 asked NASA to come up with a plan to track most killer asteroids and propose how to deflect the potentially catastrophic ones.

Don’t read the article if you’d rather not spit out your delicious cup of coffee. It’s not really a funny subject, but I can’t help but laugh at the fact that they don’t have enough money to “save Earth”.

Source: MSNBC