Orzek,<br />It is interesting that anything that does not fit in with your belief system is “shaky”, “extremist”, or “obsession”. That attitude virtually defines extremist. <br /><br /><font color="yellow">He is still obssessed with armageddon by an asteroid even though there is no evidence whatsoever that such an event will happen for a very looong time or that we need to worry.</font><br /><br />Well, unlike you, I am not “obsessed” about it. However, I will point out that it is a fact that Earth has been hit in the past by objects large enough to either make mankind extinct, or drive us back to the stone age. That is a fact of geological history. As to your view that it will not happen for a “very looong time”, you don't know that either. But, while the interval between recorded strikes may tend to be rather long (millions of years), the actual occurance is quite arbitrary, and can happen at any time, tonight, tomorrow, next month, next year, next millenium, or a million years from now. What we DO know, is that there are planet-killer objects narrowly (in astronomicla terms) missing the Earth fairly often, perhaps 2-3 times per year. Some of those have passed within the orbit of the Moon. Many of those haven't even been seen until after they have passed. While you may take comfort in <i>assuming</i> that we will be lucky enough to escape simply because the odds are low, that is a rather foolish attitude if we are finally in the position to do something about it.<br /><br /><font color="yellow">Please Mental, stop trotting out the same old arguments </font><br /><br />I would ask that you do the same, but I know you won't.<br /><br /><font color="yellow">Despite your trivial dismissial of exploiting the moons resources and equally dodgy assertions of the huge costs involved (despite the lack of evidence to support it-</font><br /><br />What I have never seen on any site, is evidence that economical mining, processing, and manufac <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-right:0in" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" color="#ff0000"><strong>Our Solar System must be passing through a Non Sequitur area of space.</strong></font></p> </div>