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While I get your point, this surely isn't true though, right? Absolutely no concern was given to the prospect of a collision. Doesn't NASA have to constant

While I get your point, this surely isn't true though, right? Absolutely no concern was given to the prospect of a collision. Doesn't NASA have to constantly deal with and prepare for one-in-a-million chance scenarios? It seems reasonable to have a collision detector and "auto-route-arounder" that help here (among many other scenarios).

jerf 14y ago
It might be more accurate to say that thought has been given to the prospect of a "generic" collision with a space object, but that no thought was spared for asteroids in the asteroid belt in particular. Twice nearly nothing per cubic megameter is still nearly nothing.