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To: Lane3 who wrote (4191)	11/23/2004 9:09:35 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

You also have to consider the use to which that money could be put if you weren't spending it on long-shot asteroids. The cost would be in the million range not the billions. Should we find an actual thread it would explode upwards but than it would be worth it. I've seen estimates that the average expected deaths per year from asteroid impacts, assuming a population that stays at about the current level for a long time, would probably be about the same as the number of deaths from plane crashes. Of course plane crashes happen every year, but the worst plane crash ever only killed in the low thousands range (and that was a deliberate colision designed to kill people). If the defense against asteroids budget was like the US defense budget, or even NASA's budget I would consider it overspending, but the budget would be a lot less than DC might spend on a stadium, and also much less than we spend on air travel safety measures. Edit - The spending my not just be in the millions range, it might be in the single digit millions range. Tim