Because the day here at Posthuman Blues just isn't complete without a little well-intentioned scare-mongering:
Asteroid Watch: Saving Arecibo's Radar
"Let's hope that we find all the dangerous asteroids in the next few months," says Cornell astronomer Joseph Burns. He's talking about the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which Cornell manages for the National Science Foundation. Word is that Arecibo's radar system may lose its NSF funding as early as 2008, leaving us without our premier tool for tracking asteroids of the Earth-crossing variety.
Hello Moon-Mars Initiative, goodbye everything else.
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