Should the US Government develop space technology to prevent a massive asteroid impact?

Question

An asteroid impact could totally end life on the planet as we know it, yet we are doing nothing to prevent it. The risk of this occurring in the next century is 1 in 5000.

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=6509

Answer 1

Yes
It is a big sky and the more time we now start looking we will have time to respond.
There have been serval close calls already.

So we need to start work now.

Answer 2

We are working on it.
It is not a high priority.
Like all the other pending disasters, we NEVER do anything until AFTER the fact.
Take hurricane Katrina as a classic example. The Government AND all the CITIZENS of New Orleans KNEW the potential for THAT disaster existed.
Clinton gave New Orleans $85,000,000.00 to improve the levies. The Black Democrat Mayor spent the money to promote tourism and a casino.
THAT was a higher priority.

Answer 3

You mean like on Bugs Bunny where a big bat comes from out of the earth and knocks the asteroid into the next galaxy? There may already be something that has been developed that we are not privy to.

Answer 4

I am afraid it is too late to develop this type of technology. If the earth is meant to have a massive asteroid impact, such as the stars of heaven falling to the earth, then no amount of intervention from man will stop it. Seven years time is not enough to thoroughly develop this "space technology", but that is all that is given to the earth as we know it.

Answer 5

We don't have the ability at the current time to do anything about it if we wanted to.

Answer 6

Delete this question quick...
If W-a see this question, tomorrow he's going to label space as Al-Qaida and bomb the heck out-ha our space ;)