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  I enjoyed the movie as well. They got enough of the major science so
right that I can overlook the nit-picky errors as dramatic or artistic
license. I think it might be worth sharing with our colleagues that we
might consider emphasizing the following as we talk with the public about
the movie: for the price of making the movie, we could survey to
completeness within a couple decades the near-Earth environment for objects
which might pose a global catastrophe. (Granted, it wouldn't help much for
the problem of long-period comets, presumably the scenario of the movie,
but...) If people enjoyed the movie and were moved to think a little more
about the scenario, would they be willing to spend the price of admission
to better understand and prevent the real thing?



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David Morrison, Director of Space
NASA Ames Research Center, MS 200-7
Mountain View CA 94035-1000
Tel 650 604 5094; Fax 650 604 1165
david.morrison@arc.nasa.gov or dmorrison@mail.arc.nasa.gov
website: http://space.arc.nasa.gov
website: http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov
website: http://impact.arc.nasa.gov

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