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Article: All in a day's work: eat Chinese takeout, save planet Earth.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 20, 2005
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Byline: Patrik Jonsson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
ATLANTA -- A.C. Charania has a vision to protect your house from sudden attack. Not from rogue missiles from North Korea, but from wayward rocks hurtling toward Earth.
His plan: In case of an incoming asteroid, send an army of nuclear-powered robots called MADMEN to grab hold of the errant rock, drill into it, and use rail-guns with a nuclear charge to shoot buckets of debris into space and sway its trajectory. That way Earth could avoid the type of celestial collision that may have made dinosaurs extinct.
Seriously.
Call it Hollywood meets the Dixie rocketeers. Here ...