NASA's New Asteroid Mission Could Save the Planet

He also is a firm believer that black people should get over slavery and stop using it as an excuse.

Is that true?

I would vote for him. And I'm not even allowed to.

He said in when he talked to Stephen Fry when he did 'Stephen Fry in America.'

The Pure Awesomeness of having those two in a room talking nearly caused my head to explode.

Wow... Those are literally the two greatest voices in the world.

Can anyone say President Freeman and Vice president Fry?

I can't, because I lost my voice...

Ringleader wrote:I was reading up on a new rocket engine, it would have the fuel efficiency of an ion engine, with the power of a chemical rocket (Or maybe it's the other way around?),

Given that those two qualities are the respective engine's strengths, let's hope it's that way.

Ringleader wrote:anyway, it would be able to land a man on mars in 39 days, which is really really fast considering the normal time is 6 to 7 months. The new engine is called VASIMR, and it could revolutionize space travel.

Yeah, you got it right the first time.

Vigil wrote:I always assumed we either

A) Fire all our nukes at it.

Wouldn't work...

ReconToaster wrote:It's always a black president who tries to save the Earth from an asteroid....

Ah, you read "Moonfall" too, huh?

Lord Pheonix wrote:He could convince world leaders to do whatever he wants with his smooth calming voice.

President Morgan Freeman, with Energy Secretary Gordon Freeman.
And David Wells to be appointed as head of NASA... Channeling Carl Sagan's spirit.

Firing nukes at it or blowing it up on the inside would create millions of smaller fragments that would probably cause a different flavor of hell on earth. Shooting a laser at it would cause a pressure imbalance on one side, which would create a thrust effect that, over time, would change the course of the incoming object. A gravity tractor would also work without creating different problems.

Gordon Freeman has never done physics right. Think about it: the Black Mesa incident, numerous teleport malfunctions, stuff always needing to be plugged in. He'll doom us then save us all!

'The right man in the wrong place can make all the differance in the world.'

"Wake up and... smell the ashes."