Does anyone think NASA's future moon colony and the coming asteroid in 2029 are related?

Question

"NASA's plans for returning people to the moon -- an objective called for by President Bush in 2004 -- includes establishing a permanent outpost that would be used to prepare for a manned trip to Mars" - CNN
The coming asteroid is going to pass through Earth's gravitational key-hole in 2029, and impact the Earth seven years later. Is it possible that world's scientist's have determined that stopping the asteroid is wishful thinking, and maybe after doing a risk asessment have determined that building a moon colony to shelter key individuals is more plausable. Maybe they are related, maybe not - but it does seem suspicious. Considering how hard and difficult it is to do these calculations, if they had determined it was dangerous, would they tell us?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/12/04/moon.base/index.html
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn8245

Answer 1

Totally unrelated. There is no way NASA can get a self sufficient lunar colony going in that time frame and there are so many uncertainties that even if the that asteroid which will miss the earth got diverted, there's no way to predict it couldn't whack the moon too. . In fact that lunar mission is so far away, NASA can scrub the whole thing depending on what the governing administrations wants to spend. You can usually take NASA's schedules and add 30% to all of them too. Sounds like another good conspiracy theory to spread. Start a web site and start collecting sheep.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid_update_B_041227.html

Answer 2

They did, Ares/Orion yet funding became reduce. Now the plan is to bypass to an asteroid. note, they have got here upon water on the moon and on mars. in my view, I want the unique challenge Orion from the overdue 50's. no longer some thing like launching a spaceship the size of a Marriott inn with a crew of two hundred for a excursion of Saturn's moons. in common words takes 1000 or so atomic bombs to do it.

Answer 3

The article says the Asteroid has a 1 in 5500 chance of hitting Earth. Your question makes the claim that the impact is going to happen.

Answer 4

I don't know but if the possibility of it hitting is high enough it would be smart to have maybe a hundred people safe on the moon at the time.

Best I can tell it'll be Americans, Russians, Japanese and Chinese people probably there. They are the ones most interested in going there.

Answer 5

In 2 words, No relation

Answer 6

would they tell us?
certainly not
are they related?
might be related but I don't think they plan to make the colony a shelter

Answer 7

sorry i am not in the paranoia or chicken little club ( nor the conspiracy cartel )