Reply #11: Everybody please try and remember we have 24 years to fix any problems

[bluestateguy]

The wisecracks are taken under advisement, but you are all looking at this from the standpoint of the year 2004 and operating on the assumption that this Administration will still be in power. Technology will surely improve in the next 24 years.

A small to medium sized asteroid can be blown to bits and pieces so small that they will burn up on re-entry. A very large rock, yes, that would be a problem, but that's not what were dealing with here. This asteroid is not large enough to cause global catastrophic damage.