Date: October 18th, 2018 6:14 PM
Author: Fishy Location Selfie
We are going to cut everything but asteroid defense. No reason for alarm. We don't know anything you might be interested in knowing related to asteroids.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-17/asteroid-coming-nasas-planetary-defense-coordination-office-budget-suddenly-spikes
It didn’t make many national headlines, but the proposed budget for NASA’s “Planetary Defense Coordination Office” was just increased by 90 million dollars.
At a time when our national budget is already stretched to the max, this seems like an odd thing to be spending so much money on. As you will see below, the “Planetary Defense Coordination Office” is only two years old, and it is in charge of tracking threats posed by near-Earth objects such as asteroids. Needless to say, if a giant asteroid suddenly hit our planet it would be the greatest catastrophe in modern times and for those of us that survived our lives would be radically different from then on. So the threat is real, but in recent years NASA has assured the public that there are no imminent threats. Has that now changed?
This is a subject that I am particularly interested in, and so a Politico article about “NASA’s asteroid defense program” definitely caught my eye…
The Trump administration has proposed increasing the budget for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office by three-fold — from some $60 million to $150 million — amid growing concerns that humanity is utterly unprepared for the unlikely but still unthinkable: an asteroid strike of calamitous proportions.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4109896&forum_id=2#37051908)