It’s not sci-fi: Americans support asteroid defense spending

It’s not sci-fi: Americans support asteroid defense spending

Funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of Congress

U.S. Asteroid Defense May Be Weakened By Musk's Budget-Slashing

What are the odds of an asteroid of dangerous dimensions striking the planet? If you wait long enough, it’s 100 percent. And they don’t even have to be especially gargantuan to cause widespread harm: So-called city killers — football stadium-size asteroids that can handily vaporize a metropolis with their nuclear weapon-style explosion — are disturbingly common in near-Earth space.If we do find that a city killer is barreling toward us, there ar…