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I once met some people involved in Planetary Defense. One of them launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund development of his concept, the Hypervelocity Astero
by JoeDaDude 3y ago
I once met some people involved in Planetary Defense. One of them launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund development of his concept, the Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle. The crowdfunding campaign only raised some 4% of the needed funs. Nobody wanted to pay to save the Earth!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-defend-earth-against-asteroid-threats#/ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-defend-earth-against...
- XzAeRosho 3y agoTBH it's difficult to take serious any campaign running through these crowdfunding platforms. My "scam alert" sirens start to go off any time I see these kind of links.
- JoeDaDude 3y agoI don't know this for a fact, but I suspect the Principal Investigator was sold a bunch of baloney from the crowdsource outfit. They do take a large portion of the funding, after all. The PI had already been through Phase I and Phase II of NASA funding and likely went to crowdfunding because he lost Phase III. https://www.nasa.gov/general/an-innovative-solution-to-nasas-neo-impact-threat-mitigation-grand-challenge-and-flight-validation-mission-architecture-development/ https://www.nasa.gov/general/an-innovative-solution-to-nasas...