Re: Planetary Protection Officer

At 11:34 AM -0400 7/16/02, laserlight@quixnet.net wrote:
>
>If in 600 years we haven't made sufficient progress to cope with that,
I'd
>say we deserve to get hit.

Heck, in 600 years we ought to be able to grab the sucker, pull it 
into geo-synchronous orbit and harvest the metals and silicates off 
the bugger. Then turn it into a giant station/tiny moonlet as a 
micro-gravity research station and manufacturing base for additional 
projects. How I'd love to live to see that stuff.

Sometimes I wish I was a character in an Allen Steele story (one of 
the less weird ones at least).
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