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Re:“How Do TSA Employees Feel About Working For a Despised A... by mctx on Friday December 21, 2012 @10:59PM (#4955720)
> pea-shooter based comet defense system?

I'm pretty sure the state of art of this field is deep core drilling (as of 1998, anyway)

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Re:“How Do TSA Employees Feel About Working For a Despised A... by dredmorbius on Monday December 24, 2012 @03:56AM (#4962315)
The point isn't "pea shooter" as a description of state of the art, but of its effectiveness. There's nothing we have available to us in technology that would be able to divert a mass-extinction class meteor (or even just a really-bad-day meteor) on short notice. Given a decade or more we might be able to launch a mission to moderately divert an orbit, but at very high expense.

It's the cost-to-effectiveness ratio I believe TSA is being compared.

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