Computer generated simulation of an asteroid strike on the Earth. Credit: Don Davis/AFP/Getty Images

“If we get hit 20 years from now, that’s not bad luck. That’s stupidity.”

That’s what former NASA astronaut Ed Lu had to say about asteroids and our efforts to search for them, at a panel discussion today at New York’s American Museum of Natural History.

Read the Article: “What If Earth Was Threatened by An Asteroid Strike? Astronaut Panel Brings Up Ideas To Search, Deflect These Threats”

Universe Today (October 25, 2013)