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Whats the point in research and stuff when you cannot save the human life. There are possibilities of saving ourselves and nobody seems to understand ?? And moreover what are other countries doing..Its not just NASA, which has the ability to deal with such issues. No other country is probably working on such critical issues !

Space.com news says

NASA needs more cash in order to meet its goal of finding nearby space rocks that could hit Earth in a devastating impact, a new report says.

Congress ordered NASA in 2005 to find and track 90 percent of the large asteroids near Earth by 2020, but did not set aside the necessary funds required to do the job, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Academy of Sciences.

Without that funding, NASA will not be able to build the new facilities and telescopes required to track potentially threatening asteroids down to the size of about 460 feet (140 meters) across, according to the interim report.

“I think they’re pretty much right on,” said Lindley Johnson, NASA’s manager of the Near-Earth Objects program at the agency’s headquarters in Washington.

Johnson told SPACE.com Wednesday that NASA has estimated it needs between $800 million and $1 billion over the course of 12 to 15 years to build and support the more sensitive telescopes required to meet its goal of tracking most of the near-Earth objects.

I believe such critical issues should be addressed first, rather than all other research ! When Human Life is at stake, whats the use of doing some research which is not going to be of any use right when we want it to be ! When such things can be avoided, why we so very careless about such critical issues ! .. 

image courtesy: space.com

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