Friday, January 1, 2010

Russian space chief Anatoly Perminov's grim warning over asteroid that could 'kill millions'

The head of Russia's space agency either knows something we don't - or there's something in his Tang.

Anatoly Perminov stoked up some hysteria Wednesday as he sounded the alarm about an asteroid called Apophis that is hurtling in the general direction of Earth.

"Peoples' lives are at stake," Perminov told a Russian news agency.

"We should pay several hundred million dollars and build a system that would ... prevent a collision, rather than sit and wait for it to happen and kill hundreds of thousands of people."

Russian space chief Anatoly Perminov's grim warning over asteroid that could 'kill millions'

Comments: Let me guess … wait, wait … don’t tell me – IT’S THE SEVERAL HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS! We do not need rocket scientists to read into this. Science is the same everywhere - “Show me the money”.

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