Big Loud Boom

It's been 100 years since something exploded over Siberia and flattened a whole bunch of trees and there's thoughts of near earth objects and the disturbing news that a Tunguska event could happen pretty much anywhere anytime. You remember the scene in Armageddon when Billy Bob Thornton remarks somewhat accurately that 'it's a big-ass sky' well, it is and we should be investing some more money on the issue. Yet another reason why we need billionaire space nerds in this country and still one more black mark against a NASA that needs a new vision and a country that needs to wake up to the fact that an asteroid could hit pretty much at any time and wipe out our civilization.

Get us to the moon and set up an observatory on the far side. Just go somewhere and do something already. Explore some of that big-ass sky.