[FPSPACE] Public opinion and the Moon

[E.P. Grondine]

Hello Morris - 

The key question that NEVER gets asked of the public is whether they want their space money spent on finding the next piece of sh--tuff from space before it hits and kills a lot of people.

Why those who conduct these polls do this reflects social processes.

E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas

PS - Why is Shoemaker's work on impact craters being called "astrogeology"? Of course, since impact is the dominant process nearly everywhere else in the solar system, I suppose it is appropriate somehow. It's more certainly mor elegant than "craterology".

David then works as an archivist for impact research done at Barringer Crater.

I also see that Dwayne Day is heading up the NRC study team on the asteroid impact hazard to the Earth. I wonder if they them study comet impact as well. 

In any case, most of the work on recent impacts may be found in the Cambridge Conference archives until 1997-2003. The definitive survey of recent impacts in the Americas (and thus the best hazard estimate based on the recent record) is of course my book "Man and Impact in the Americas". 

So David and Dwayne - from the evidence of employment, the paradigm is shifting.



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