Libertarian Space Shield is Coming...

1st proposed by LIO Fellows such as MG, Heinlein and Reagan to re-purpose nuclear missiles…and championed by the Libertarian Lifeboat Foundation…let’s move to voluntary financing and be careful with the corporations…http://www.allgov.com//ViewNews/International_Plan_to_Protect_Earth_from_Comets_and_Asteroids_Could_Mean_Billions_for_Contractors_120122

 

International Plan to Protect Earth from Comets and Asteroids Could Mean Billions for Contractors
Sunday, January 22, 2012

 

Major European space contractors and space agencies recently began work on NEOShield, a three-and-a-half-year project to study how best to protect the earth from a devastating collision with an asteroid or other Near Earth Object (NEO). Although thousands of tiny objects enter the planet’s atmosphere every year, none are large enough to cause damage. However, on average, one car-sized object enters the atmosphere per year, causing a visible fireball in the sky, and about once every 2,000 years, a soccer field-sized object hits the Earth and does local damage. The concern of the new project is with much larger threats, because every few million years or so, an object miles wide strikes and does global damage. Such a collision occurred about 65 million years ago, causing the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, which killed about half of all animal and plant species.

 

The largest contractor currently participating in NEOShield is EADS Astrium, a corporate giant with 2009 revenues of €4.8 billion and 15,000 employees in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain and the Netherlands. Others include Spanish satellite company Elecnor Deimos Imaging; along with the German, French and Russian Space Agencies. The leading proposals for avoiding a collision include using a spacecraft to nudge an asteroid off its course,

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