Are we too cheap to stop asteroid strikes? You decide:

Scott Pace, head of program analysis and evaluation at NASA, said the agency could not do more to detect NEOs “given the constrained resources and the strategic objectives NASA already has been tasked with.”

If there is a one in 26 million chance that an asteroid strike will kill everyone in the world, that’s an expectation of 230 deaths per year. That’s within a stone’s throw of the average number of deaths from terrorist attacks on US soil in the last ten years. It’s interesting to watch the difference between overreacting to terrorism and underreacting to understood harms such as auto accidents.

Not that I think war in Iraq was a bad idea, just that ‘War on Terror’ is an inapt name. The operation name ‘Iraqi Freedom’ was more apt.