You *obviously* don't have a family.

Of course not!! *Obviously* the Chinese and Russian governments have have a long history of secular humanism and effective promotion of their citizens' welfare.

(Oh, wait. That's Denmark & Sweden back when they didn't have many dark-skinned immigrants.)

You do your cause no good when you edit out crucial words.

The actual quote: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds".

And I'm betting it's a *wealthy* commuter town.

Are there two cargo docks on the ISS, or would the Soyuz have had to sit in a parking orbit for a month while they unloaded the Dragon, and then reloaded it?

The Tor that was developed by the US military? That Tor?

Scanning the sky. But not building large-enough rockets.

Aren't we already scanning the sky for asteroids?

Right. And you get that capability by building Much Bigger Rockets, which is why I wrote, "lobby for the funding of Much Bigger Rockets."

I am afraid of getting hit by lightning, and getting bit by a shark, but not so afraid that I won't walk in the rain or swim in the ocean. I just take reasonable precautions.

That's the difference between a rational fear and an irrational fear.

The awareness they are raising is that they want to waste our tax dollars on Yet Another Irrational Fear.

If they *really* care about saving the Earth from civilization-killer asteroids, lobby for the funding of Much Bigger Rockets.

Huh? You're the one who first mentioned the Moon.

So? That big shiny thing isn't going to hit us either.

But we don't live in cosmic terms; we live in human terms, and 425,000 miles is really far away!

Showing lots of cleavage distracts guys, frequently attracting them like flies to honey to chat the woman up and hit on her, thereby distracting her from the concentration needed to program.