Landing on an asteroid and giving it a well-timed nudge ”would demonstrate once and for all that we’re smarter than the dinosaurs and can avoid what they didn’t,” said White House science adviser John Holdren.
Wait. We have to land on an asteroid and play “Armageddon” to prove we’re smarter than the dinosaurs? What about all that business with the industrial age, atomic power, SENDING SOMEONE TO THE MOON…
Apparently the dinosaurs sent one of their own to the moon already, so this is the only way we can top them? Take THAT, dinosaurs. Wait. You’re extinct. DOUBLE-WHAMMY!