> We have the capability of solving multiple problems at once, though - it's not an all-or-nothing thing. So I think running observation/detection systems is wo

> We have the capability of solving multiple problems at once, though - it's not an all-or-nothing thing. So I think running observation/detection systems is worth it, even with the occasional news release about significant close-approaches. Well said, I agree. This applies to a lot of things that people often ask, “but shouldn’t we focus on X instead?” about. We have both the people and the resources to do multiple things at once, and we should, if only because it doesn’t help anybody to tell people who’ve spent a large chunk of their lives working on asteroid defense, rockets, crewed spaceflight, etc that their job is gone and they have to start over from scratch and work on X instead.