As NASA continues baffle us with their financial allocation, (Do we really need a station on the the moon?), their newest effort has take a page straight from Hollywood.
Probably inspired by studying highly fact based plots of "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon", NASA has decided to build a nuke packing space craft to blast any life threatening asteroids ('A global killer' I believe is how Billy Bob Thorton PHD put it) out of harm's way.
Now is it just me or is it that no computer system is safe these days. All it takes is one guy who can infiltrate the network, reset a few things and BOOM, he can hold the world ransom for 100 billion dollars*, (or a pre-release of Starcraft 3, which is probably more likely).
It looks like 00 agent Daniel Craig is going to be in need very soon.
Either that or another rousing rendition of "Leavin' on a Jet Plane" by Ben Affleck ... who am I kidding, Shia Labeouf. In which case the asteroid might be a much prefered demise.
*Dr. Evil
(I'd like to apologize in advance to my friend Vito, who when he gets back and actually reads this, will make sure I can't use a keyboard for the rest of my life)
3 comments:
In advance I'd like to address those who read the WIRED article about what NASA IS doing and what the SHOULD be doing. I know that this project might fall under number 2 of what they should be doing. However I think and important word in that line was practical. I don't think that this project is a practical solution to the problem. I'm not saying I could think of a better solution, I'm just merely musing on the Hollywood script-ish tone this project reflects.
How about this for an environment friendly project: NASA Tests Hydrogen-Fueled BMW.
NASA is making headlines this week. Well, any publicity is good publicity: Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data.
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