Speaking of NASA and space, do you know how much of the sky we actually monitor for asteroids, potentially large enough to end all life on earth? Just take a guess. 90%? 40%?

In fact, we monitor LESS THAN 1% of the skies for asteroid threads, which are actually a great factor to end human life. Now, the costs for monitoring the entire sky would easily hit billion dollar figuers per year, but take a look at this instead:

"The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated the cost of "prosecuting" a war against Iraq at up to $9 billion per month, on top of an initial outlay of up to $13 billion for the deployment of troops to the Persian Gulf region."

If people could stop pumping resources into nuclear weapons and peace resolutions, we could actually be safe from something far more dangerous than nuclear weapons. So why don't we? As a native American Indian chief once said; "Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, man will realize he cannot eat money."

You're heard it before, and I'll say it again. We're killing ourselves slowly, and we're enjoying every moment of it.

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