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English: asteroid 1 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) To Deflect Asteroids From Earth, Deploy Paintballs By The Ton | Popular Science :  " Paek 's strategy is fairly simple: Five tons of paintballs full of white powder would be launched towards an asteroid from a nearby space craft , 20 years in advance of a possible collision with Earth. The force of the pellets hitting the object will push it off course, but also the reflectivity--the albedo--of the white paint would increase, and over time the photons bouncing off the surface would also force the asteroid away from our planet. How has no one ever thought of this before?" Related articles Could paintballs deflect an asteroid headed for Earth? To Deflect Asteroids From Earth, Deploy Paintballs By The Ton Paintballs Could Deflect Asteroids From Earth Paintballs may deflect an incoming asteroid Paintballs Proposed to Deflect Asteroids Paintball Pellets Could Deflect an Asteroid from Destroying Earth Paintball...

Who Invented Email? Just Ask...Noam Chomsky | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com :  "This week, Chomsky — the professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at MIT who’s known as much for his criticism of US foreign policy and capitalism as much as his academic work — unexpectedly joined the debate over the origins of email, putting his weight behind V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai , a man who claims he invented email as in 1978 at the age of 14 while working at a medical and dentistry university in New Jersey ." .. .ero . Related articles Noam Chomsky Comments on the "Kill List" Noam Chomsky disputes email history 'Inventor of Email' Gets Support of Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky disputes email history Noam Chomsky Disputes Email History Noam Chomsky weighs in on Ayyadurai's email invention claim A LEGO "Inception" Email dispute