Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for July 12, 2024

And all this time, the solution was really just that simple.

If only asteroids read English!

So far, so good.

I expected Brewster to enact “Preparation H” for asteroids.

Not a good sign for earth.

If that doesn’t work we could try an asteroid tax.

Like the Joe Biden strategy, just tell asteroids, “Don’t!”

A small mass ejector can do the trick — charge dust from the endangering asteroid and then accelerate it away. Solar or nuclear powered. It would slowly move the asteroid. Maximum lateral displacement of 4,000 miles would do the trick.

The “space potato guy” AKA their mascot is not going to like that!

Rickard is doing deep social commentary today. No, I’m not being facetious or sarcastic.

Everything’s got to be political, hasn’t it? Humanity could die out and your last words would be “It’s THEIR fault.”

Do you remember the last thing Biden said? Neither does he.

Reminds me of the lady wanting to have the deer crossing sign moved so they would cross elsewhere…

Trump wouldn’t do that much if he couldn’t make money off of it. If one did hit anyway trump would just ‘’refuse to take reasonability for anything’’ no matter how many died during his ire-reasonable administration as the leader of the free world. But republicans say: ’’Let’s do it again’’???

That’ll do it!

No, no, no. “Asteroid Detour Lane” with an arrow. :)

He could put up the William J LePetomane tollbooth.

How about constructing a giant trampoline around the earth. When the asteroid hits it, the asteroid should just bounce back into space. With inertia, wouldn’t it just keep going and going until it hits another object. (An object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an outside force – or something like that.)

That will only work with the literate ones.

No, you fool! That will ENCOURAGE them!

Asteroids will say “we can still go in, the Earthers just don’t want the space potatoes from getting in”

That leaves us wide open for comets and solar flares. Try again Brewster.

A completely effective “Asteroid-Free Zone”