CNN Weekend Early Start March 9, 2013 12:14:00
>> oh, yeah, i think it's very important that we fund -- and we are funding these near earth object detection systems. we need to do it. it doesn't cost a lot. and it's important for us because as i say if this object hit the earth would cause a lot of hesitation. we might need to do something about it. but in some sense, we're suffering from embarrassment of riches. it's true that this was only detected nine days ago, but a decade ago, we probably wouldn't have detected it at all and wouldn't have worried about it. so we're getting better and able to see more objects and learning about -- the...
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