Washington strengthen defenses to deal with stray asteroids .... see !!
Although the likelihood of an asteroid collision wandering too little land, and up to one of the 20 thousand, but the United States needs to allocate billions of dollars to develop techniques to prevent such disasters. Experts said, the Commission of Science, Space and Technology hearing the House of Representatives: "The possibilities are still very weak, but the potential for such a huge event consequences .. and should be seriously considered for such risks." Charles Bolden, NASA's interpretation of the Commission, saying that the experts were able to identify 95 percent of the largest of about a half-mile asteroid, which is the kind that threatens human infection hits the ground. Bolden said that luck was not an ally of the existing efforts to identify small meteors, such as those that fell in Russia and caused the injury of more than a thousand people were injured and at a cost of millions of dollars in losses, referring to the scientists failed to iden...