Asteroids Quotes - Page 2

• For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

  David Zindell

  War, Fall, Men

  "The Wild". Book by David Zindell, 1995.

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• 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

  Effort, Mars, Next

  Interview with Scholastic students, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make space tourism and commerce routine.

  Daniel Goldin

  Future, Moon, Space

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• I've said multiple times that the world's first trillionaire is going to be the person who exploits the resources of asteroids, the natural resources that are rare on earth and common on selected asteroids. So there are many different reasons you might want to go into space. You might want to spend your honeymoon on the far side of the moon.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Space, Want

  Source: bookriot.com

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• 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

  Real, Location, Payback

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• If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Communication, Bad Day, Energy

  "Cosmic Coincidence: Asteroid Careens by as Meteor Delivers ‘Buzz Cut’ to Earth". www.pbs.org. February 15, 2013.

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• As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids.

  Peter Diamandis

  Eight, Earth, May

  "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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• Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sight, Space, Dinosaurs

  "'Space Chronicles': Why Exploring Space Still Matters". Interview with David Greene, www.npr.org. February 27, 2012.

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• 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

  Rocks, Earth, Birth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty.

  Jon Stewart

  Men, Race, Black

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• It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed Bruce Willis character, fighting against the evil foreign enemy while despising the domestic bureaucracy. Men just wanted to focus on one big thing, leaving the thousands of smaller messes for the women around them to clean up.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  War, Character, Fighting

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• And you know, talk about something else is falling from the sky. And that is an asteroid. What's coming our way? Is this an effect of perhaps global warming or just some meteoric occasion?

  Deborah Feyerick

  Fall, Sky, Way

  "CNN Newsroom" with Deborah Feyerick, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2013.

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• We made and spent at least 10 million dollars. The thing is, we heard that the planet was going to end in 2012. We thought, We have got to spend this money before the asteroid hits.

  Spencer Pratt

  Dollars, Ends, Made

  "How Heidi and Spencer Pratt blew $10 million". www.news.com.au. December 5, 2013.

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• Richard Pilbrow's lighting can turn a coin into an asteroid and an idea into an apparition.

  Jack Kroll

  Ideas, Coins, Apparitions

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• 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

  Successful, May, Kind

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. April 24, 2014.

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• It would be great if we were on multiple planets, but I think that's unrealistic. Hawking says we have to be on multiple planets so an asteroid could come and you'd still have some humans left. It's a nice idea. It satisfies the multiple-eggs-in-multiple-baskets concept.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Nice, Thinking, Eggs

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview With David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Names, Two, Honored

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, Hands, Years

  "Mapping Ideology" by Slavoj Žižek, p.1, 1994.

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• But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Years, Twenties, World

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• This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never write again. If a dinosaur killing asteroid was headed for Earth and I knew Baxter had another book coming up, I would campaign for letting the rock hit, since it is obviously the work of a benovelent deity trying to save us from another Titan.

  James Nicoll

  Book, Writing, Rocks

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• In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration -- be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting asteroids, or whatever seems appropriate. We've got millions and millions of people who want to go into space, who are willing to pay. When you figure in the payload potential of customers, everything changes.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Space, People

  "Buzz Aldrin: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 25, 2012.

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• The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on another world in our solar system: Mars. I firmly believe we will establish permanence on that planet. And in reaching for that goal, we can cultivate commercial development of the moon, the asteroid belt, the Red Planet itself and beyond.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Believe, Ambition, Moon

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• The chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 were so large, and were moving so fast, that each hit Jupiter with at least the equivalent energy of the dinosaur-killing collision between Earth and an asteroid 65 million years ago. Whatever damage Jupiter sustained, one thing is for sure: it's got no dinosaurs left.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moving, Years, Energy

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• If an asteroid is coming toward you, you don't have to blow it up. You just have to slow it down long enough for our country to rotate out of the way.

  Emo Philips

  Country, Blow, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.

  Aaron Belz

  Moving, Writing, Reality

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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