Wednesday, December 08, 2004

NASA attack on comet lights up Star Wars fear

"'We need to know a lot more about our enemy,' said Duncan Steel, a space scientist with the Ball Solutions Group in Canberra and vice-president of the Rome-based Spaceguard Foundation, a consortium searching the skies for threatening objects, and devising ways to protect the planet from them. 'We don't know if we need an elephant gun or a butterfly net to deal with them. We need to find these things out.'"

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