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SilverDoor
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No, we would be able to see any major threats from space. Except aliens.
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Bobman21
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i am not high, youre just stupid. NEAT does a fine job but it can't track everything important. most of what it tracks is, obviously, close and gives us very little warning were it to cause a catastrophe. my point was the following: most of the sky can't be tracked the way we would like. it is inevitable that we will be hit with an asteroid large enough to cause a mass extinction, the quesiton is only when. if it is inevitable, then obviously it's on course right now, just hasnt been tracked yet. why dont you take somet time to think about that before you put your ass on the line. either way, even NEAT isn't perfect.
 March 18, 2004 saw a very close recorded approach of a near-Earth object (NEO). Asteroid 2004 FH, about 30 meters (100 feet) in diameter, passed approximately 43,000 kilometers (26,500 miles) above the Earth's surface (one-tenth of the distance to the Moon). Astronomers had detected it just three days before. While the time from detection to nearest approach may seem short, Asteroid 2004 FH is extremely small. A NEO with globally cataclysmic potential would have a better chance of being discovered earlier. 
and don't say 'oh well if it were a real threat we would have caught it' because it's quite possible that NEAT misses a dangerous asteroid as well
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