Asteroid quotes:

Send

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
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future. -- Edward M. Lerner
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
The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished, sphincters. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens. -- Neal Stephenson
There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts. -- Rusty Schweickart
It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything. -- Robert T. Bakker
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization. -- Bill Nye
This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. -- L. Neil Smith
Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. -- Mark Twain
It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth. -- Rusty Schweickart
When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history. -- Rusty Schweickart
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
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
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
What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However many guys we have working on this problem, it can't possibly be enough. -- Timothy Noah
When you have an asteroid threatening Earth, it's uncertain where it's going to hit until the last minute; the decision to take action has to be coordinated by the international community. -- Rusty Schweickart
We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival. -- Rusty Schweickart
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid. -- Larry Niven
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
An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us. -- Elon Musk
By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part. -- Rusty Schweickart
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. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them. -- Michio Kaku
The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands or millions of years. Indeed, only the sun, moon and planets - together with the occasional comet, asteroid or meteor - seem dynamic. -- Seth Shostak
The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid - one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence - hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite. -- Seth Shostak
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.' -- Nathan Myhrvold
Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out. -- Nathan Myhrvold
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
The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse? -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations... -- Dave Barry
We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or. -- Rusty Schweickart
I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid. -- Orson Scott Card
If human is capable of conducting genocide,no need for an asteroid to wipe out dinosaurs. -- Toba Beta
Richard Pilbrow's lighting can turn a coin into an asteroid and an idea into an apparition. -- Jack Kroll
While we didn't know the dinosaurs personally, we do know that they were wiped out by an asteroid impact. -- Rusty Schweickart
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
todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school. -- Susan Beth Pfeffer
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
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
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
...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
Most of my dates had consisted of some guy trying to sweet-talk me while I silently prayed for an asteroid to crash into whatever diner we were at. -- Stephanie Nelson
A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight. -- Buzz Aldrin
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
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
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
When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman. -- Gail Simone
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
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
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
"Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe." -- Stephen Hawking

Send