Asteroids Quotes

• Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.684, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• 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

  Funny, Money, Becoming

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

  Peter Diamandis

  Humanity, Benefits, Earth

  "Asteroid Impacts Over Russia - Another Larger Rock Passing Very Close to Earth" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

  L. Neil Smith

  Years, Dinosaurs, Strikes

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• What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Science

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• In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Running, Long, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Friday, Communication, Bad Ass

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.261, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

  Bill Nye

  Civilization, Games, Earth

  "Bill Nye: U.S. risks losing its space edge" by Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2012.

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• Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

  James Hansen

  Motivation, Inspiration, Earth

  "James Hansen: What Makes A Scientist Take A Stand?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 7, 2017.

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• 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

  Tombstone, Airplane, Chance

  "We Can Survive Killer Asteroids — But It Won't Be Easy". www.wired.com. April 02, 2012.

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• I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.

  Orson Scott Card

  Australia

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Shadow Of The Giant: Book 4 of the Shadow Saga”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• We need early warning systems, technologies to deflect an asteroid - and we need political preparedness as well. It needs to be clear who is to decide what, who launches the rockets, who presents which bills to its citizens. This is a planetary decision. We need to do this all together. Or it will not happen.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Technology, Decision, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm extraordinarily passionate about the idea of asteroid mining in the future. Asteroids out there, we know them from those that have fallen on the Earth, there is a class of asteroids, sub-class of nickel/iron asteroids, which are 50,000 times more enriched than Platinum mines on earth.

  Peter Diamandis

  Class, Ideas, Iron

  "Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis". Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.

  James Nicoll

  Earth, May, Trouble

  Usenet article, 2000.

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• To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance of several tens of kilometers, to land on its satellite or even on its surface, what can be more fantastic? From the moment of using rocket devices a new great era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Distance, Moon, Rocks

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• There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Impact, Accepted, Policy

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• 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

  Generations, Dinosaurs, Saws

  "Finally, Neil deGrasse Tyson and “Cosmos” Take on Climate Change" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. May 5, 2014.

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• I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don't think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today.

  Brandi Chastain

  Sports, Men, Thinking

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• We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Technology, Mars, Development

  "Exploring Space, Unearthing Human Emotions". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 13, 2011.

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• It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Earth, Would Be, Spacecraft

  "Nudging Killer Asteroids Off Course". "All Things Considered" with Nell Greenfieldboyce, www.npr.org. November 10, 2005.

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• 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

  Hemisphere, Ass

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• I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar system, including comets and asteroids, as exploration targets.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Target, Mars

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• While we didn't know the dinosaurs personally, we do know that they were wiped out by an asteroid impact.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Impact, Dinosaurs, Knows

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Mean, Alive, Earth

  "Asteroid". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil Degrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. October 3, 2006.

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• Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us.

  Al Gore

  Inspirational, Cutting, Loss

  Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.10, Rodale

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