Quotes by Asteroids An asteroid could hit us at any moment. This is not - and also, the most successful kind of life on this planet is not us, it's microbes. They're the ones who greatly outnumber us, and may eventually destroy us. Barbara Ehrenreich asteroidssuccessfulmay Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a haemorrhoid when it's on the outside of your ass? Billy Connolly asteroidsasshemisphere I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid. Brian May asteroidsmoneyfunny Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback somewhere, but it's beyond Mars that the real payoff will come from minerals. Buzz Aldrin asteroidslocationreal Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all the asteroids will become readily available. Buzz Aldrin asteroidsmarseffort ...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying. Douglas Adams asteroidsmenlying Richard Pilbrow's lighting can turn a coin into an asteroid and an idea into an apparition. Jack Kroll asteroidscoinsideas You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth. James Nicoll asteroidsearthmay Money is becoming increasingly plastic and digital. If there is a major disaster, let's say an asteroid strike, we'll go back to trading meats and furs. We won't need an abstraction, a dollar bill, but real tangible goods to survive. Kabir Sehgal asteroidsdigitalreal People have to take seriously the threat coming from asteroids and what it represents. As Chelyabinsk reminded us, we have to take asteroids as a serious scientific concern, as well as a concern for protection of mankind and survival of the planet. This is not some kook policy. It's the protection of the interests of every single individual life on this planet. Kesha Rogers asteroidssurvivalpeople This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. L. Neil Smith asteroidsdinosaursyears Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse? Neil deGrasse Tyson asteroidsdinosaursgenerations The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse? Neil deGrasse Tyson asteroidsdinosaurssaws The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.' Neil deGrasse Tyson asteroidsairplanetombstone Luckily, there are some rocks left over from our earliest days, asteroids formed during our solar system's birth. Occasionally, some of them drop in on Earth, and when they do, they're called meteorites. Neil deGrasse Tyson asteroidsrocksearth Africa's a wreck and it's not because it was hit by an asteroid. It's a wreck largely because it was hit by Europe. Noam Chomsky asteroidswreckseurope I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid. Orson Scott Card asteroidsaustralia Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? But if that was true, then a proctologist would be an astronaut. Robert Schimmel asteroidswould-beway While we didn't know the dinosaurs personally, we do know that they were wiped out by an asteroid impact. Rusty Schweickart asteroidsdinosaursimpact We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or. Rusty Schweickart asteroidsaddressesimpact12»
