Former astronaut discusses complications of defending against asteroid-caused catastrophes
Hundreds of students crowded in McKinnon Hall to watch former United States astronaut Tom D. Jones present on the catastrophic nature of asteroids during the Voices of Discovery presentation Monday night. The premise of his main argument was that our society can do more to protect our civilization from Near-Earth Objects, or anything that has an orbit coinciding near our planet, and he spent most of his time discussing the complications with reaching the current funding goals for research towards sufficient planetary defense mechanisms.