Re: Comet deflection capability

From: Aidan Karley (aidan_at_abuse.demon.co.uk.invalidated)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:00:07 +0100

In article <e90782f7.0406141144.7279baa2@posting.google.com>, Mitch Alsup
wrote:
> All in all, a laser based telescopic drill could be available for planetary
> defense if ~$10B/year was made available for the next 20 years to build and
> integrate the appropriate technologies.
>
       Compared with what - a couple of $million per year that's the total
investment in searching for Near Earth Asteroids (the most likely threat about
which we could do something) ? Perhaps a touch extravagant <G>.
        

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 Aidan Karley,
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 Location: 57°10'11" N,  02°08'43"  W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233

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