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Without even getting past the title, a national strategy can't solve an international problem. Anymore than Kentucky can't solve the problems of the United States, the United States cannot defend the planet from asteroids or aliens alone. It will take pooling the resources of everyone into a central authority with the ability to effect allocation of financial and human capital to the proper programs.



If you read the article you would understand this is about biological protection and not asteroid defense.


Sure, but at the same time if a "biological contamination" were to happen elsewhere on earth there's no way the US would be able to protect itself alone from also being exposed.

Source: Covid-19


Also it doesn't matter how well we sterilize our rockets before launch if other countries dont




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