'Killer space rock' hunt to begin

At least we can be warned if there is anything coming our way

The facility boasts a huge digital camera: a 1,400 megapixel (1.4 gigapixel) device that can photograph an area of the sky as large as 36 full Moons in a single exposure. Now that is one huge pic!

Now that is one huge pic! Can you imagine how long that would take to download using dial-up?

Interesting. Even cool!

The slight chance of an asteroid striking the earth in any of our lifetime(s) is a problem too great to ignore. If there was one was headed our way within a year, it's enough time for the world to prepare...and hopefully, humanity survives. In response to lolsocats, why can't it be easy to plug the hole in the Louisiana oil spill either? It comes to show technology isn't always meant to be the fastest way out of a problematic situation.

i was watching a NASA program about this subject and the likelihood even with all the equipment we've got now, it will be pure luck if they did detect the "killer" asteroid. the experts in the show did give figures which i cant remember but. the detection rate was about 1% to 2%. - yet when you read articles like the one in this post it gives the impression were fairly safe. it said in the program, it will take another 10 years to bring the detection rate up to 10%.