Asteroid Collision

I really enjoyed the article that Sean posted on a potential asteroid collision with Earth. It is good for the media to hit on this subject and remind people that such a collision could lead to the end of the world.

But should huge amounts of money be put into preventing a collision when there are so many more problems at home. I look at it this way: if a physicist and a computer can figure out nearly any mathematical situation, let us solve it that way. For us to build a huge rocket costing millions of dollars and slam it into an asteroid to see if we move it is pointless. Let the best physicist of the day try and figure out if we are even capable of doing it. If so, don't go ahead and waste millions of dollars on testing out the theory. Let us just monitor the skies for threats. If a threat occurs, then we can do something about it by testing.

I just think it would be unwise to go ahead and spend so much money on something that is so unlike to happen. We shouldn't start spending hundreds of millions of dollars on reflecting an asteroid until we know for darn sure that we are gonna get hit.