Those are not credible peer-reviewed journals that you cite. Just because those guys say they got accurate radio-carbon dates from T-Rex data does NOT mean they actually did. Again, data from other methods shows otherwise. In fact, the online publication it appears in (www.sciencevsevolution.org) is put out by religious fanatics who cherry pick their facts to manufacture so-called evidence supporting their beliefs. That is not science.

Are any of you commentators aware that maybe those 66 million years between dinosaur extinction by asteroid(s) may not exist? For the evidence view the technical paper published in a book in Italian by the National Research Council of Italy [in Italian]; in English the 20 page technical paper is at http://www.sciencevsevolution.org/Holzschuh.htm which was a news item in late 2009 at http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/12/italy-science-a.html. “Loonies?”

In 1925 dinosaurs were claimed to have become extinct 12 Ma BP and then later when radiometric dating methods were accepted the extinction was moved up 5x to 65 Ma BP. So, will the real “loonies” please step forward?

Maybe congress et al. should cross check this latest data by repeating the C-14 experiments on dinosaur bones in bone repositories and fossil wood in magma flows to see who is right. Me thinks that mankind has a right to know and NASA and the NSF have a duty to find out.

I prefer to keep DoD focused tightly on more earth bound threats.

While at some point in the future DoE will likely be responsible for both non-nuclear as well as nuclear means of diversion, the problem now is timely detection and warning, and that is going to require space based sensors.

I have heard this kind of rationalizing before. What do you have against NASA money being spent on anything useful?

SMD has DSN? That’s why it’s so well suited to this job? Well gee, DSN represents technology (small signal sensing, RF pointing, etc.) that is better understood by DoD than by NASA. The fact that DoD doesn’t have a big dish is something that is easily remedied. DSN is about vastly more than big dishes.

SMD has (and funds) lots of people who know something about asteroids and comets. That’s probably their major role in effective mitigation. But it isn’t mitigation.

Nope, you haven’t come close to making a compelling argument why SMD should be responsible for protecting the planet.

You know I respect the effort of those who want to get some form of planetary defense system in place, just as much as climate change efforts, etc. But this answer of yours is so plain idiotic. You don’t know who I am and what I do for a living. Yet you are patronizing me. So let me tell you when it comes to psychology you may want to check yourself first. And by the way psychology is not a science. Make an effort. You’re ruining your attempts with obtuseness.

http://philosophynow.org/issues/74/Is_Psychology_Science
“It remains true, however, that a human study such as psychology is not a science in the same sense as physics, because whatever it shares with the scientific method, it also receives essential support from the methods of hermeneutics. Faced with communications, we need to establish the background, likely knowledge and personal motives of the communicator.”

“For example, despite the statements of some here, it has been shown that about 13,000 years ago 95% of the people living in North America were killed by impact.”

Your example is as idiotic as your answer above since I am not one of them.

For example, despite the statements of some here, it has been shown that about 13,000 years ago 95% of the people living in North America were killed by impact.