Okay, so the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has given us super-absorbent adult diapers, Tang and memory mattresses—to name just a few modern conveniences.
But NASA doesn’t have enough resources to track 100,000-plus near-Earth asteroids that could cause tidal waves or destroy cities on impact?
Thankfully, NASA does have the bucks to monitor space rocks measuring more than a kilometer in diameter—large enough to repeat the elimination of most life some 65 million years ago.
Bit it still needs about $1 billion to track the little stadium-sized bruisers. That money instead goes to congressional pork such as a teapot museum, water-free-urinal conservation and a tattoo-removal program.
Which begs the obvious question: What’s the game plan if NASA does spot a killer mass orbiting toward Earth?
Duh. That’s why NASA developed the super-nappies. (25 MARCH 2007)
