NASAs looking for help in identifying potentially dangerous asteroids. <\/p>\n
This usually isnt a good sign. <\/p>\n
When authorities ask the general public to help them do their jobs its an indication of trouble. <\/p>\n
Police detectives solicit the public in providing leads for their investigations only when those investigations have reached a dead end. <\/p>\n
And when the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission came up with the 2013 Python Challenge, a call for members of the public to compete for prize money in a hunt for Burmese pythons in the Everglades, it was a sure sign that the traditional methods for getting rid of those big snakes had failed. <\/p>\n
So Im not cheered by NASAs latest plan to do a better job at identifying the number, size and location of asteroids hurtling by the planet. <\/p>\n
Be an asteroid hunter in NASAs First Asteroid Grand Challenge Contest Series, the space agency announced for the contest that began on Monday. <\/p>\n
NASAs offering $35,000 in prize money over the next six months to citizen scientists who develop improved algorithms that can be used to identify asteroids. <\/p>\n
And you thought that finding pythons in the Everglades was tough. <\/p>\n
NASAs trying to make this sound like lots of fun. <\/p>\n
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