quotes about Asteroids
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I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
-- Brian May -
You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.
-- James NicollSource : Usenet article, 2000.
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Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
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I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
-- Orson Scott Card -
It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
-- Rusty SchweickartSource : "Nudging Killer Asteroids Off Course". "All Things Considered" with Nell Greenfieldboyce, www.npr.org. November 10, 2005.
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There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.
-- Rusty Schweickart -
We made and spent at least 10 million dollars. The thing is, we heard that the planet was going to end in 2012. We thought, We have got to spend this money before the asteroid hits.
-- Spencer PrattSource : "How Heidi and Spencer Pratt blew $10 million". www.news.com.au. December 5, 2013.
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Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda.
-- Tommy Lasorda -
Money is becoming increasingly plastic and digital. If there is a major disaster, let's say an asteroid strike, we'll go back to trading meats and furs. We won't need an abstraction, a dollar bill, but real tangible goods to survive.
-- Kabir Sehgal -
People have to take seriously the threat coming from asteroids and what it represents. As Chelyabinsk reminded us, we have to take asteroids as a serious scientific concern, as well as a concern for protection of mankind and survival of the planet. This is not some kook policy. It's the protection of the interests of every single individual life on this planet.
-- Kesha Rogers -
Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? But if that was true, then a proctologist would be an astronaut.
-- Robert Schimmel -
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Richard Pilbrow's lighting can turn a coin into an asteroid and an idea into an apparition.
-- Jack Kroll