Re: NASA has always been about politics
I remember in the '80s, someone asking me if I thought that we would ever do away with nuclear weapons. My response was (and is) of course--the replacement will be much worse, however.
Orbital bombardment is much worse.
The mechanics of a solar-system-wide war should terrify anyone. The security risks of bringing an asteroid into LEO should be almost as bad. In today's articles, we see that the leader in commercial space development is in the same conglomerate as a company who's autopilot accelerated a vehicle into a known solid wall. Excuse me for being just a little bit concerned about similar hiccups where the vehicle is an asteroid, and the solid wall is the Earth.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
