"Blasted the rock into space" - this such scenario is why I wanted for NASA and similar to analyze the impact and after-effects of Shoemaker-Levy 9 on the planet Jupiter, and why our desired future OWG-NWO aka SPACE GOVT-ORDER must achieve a unified consensus among Govts, Perts on likely Space Threats and effective Space Defense, BESIDES ALSO AS PER "PEAK OIL/RESOURCES" = "PEAK EVERYTHING" FOR THE EXPLORATION + COLONIZATION OF DEEP SPACE.

AS THINGS STAND IN 2012 GOING ON 2015-2020, THE OWG/GLOBAL CONSENSUS REMAINS THAT THERE IS NO CONSENSUS, as IMO pervasive or excessive Politicization = PCorrectness-Deniability has clouded the above issues and obtructed effective research.

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE PERTS DISCOVERED A POTENTIAL SPACE ROCK THREAT TO EARTH WHERE US-WORLD GOVTS HAS ONLY HOURS OR A FEW DAYS TO CALCULATE ANY PERCEIVED REAL OR NOMINAL DANGER TO EARTH, LET ALONE DEV A COLLECTIVE EFFORT TO DEFEND AGZ IT?

FOR ALL WE KNOW, "PEAK OIL/RESOURCES" = END OF "CHEAPLY" EXTRACTED OIL/RESOURCES = RAW MATERIALS/COMMODITIES NOT JUST BECAUSE OF PROHIBITIVE ENGINEERING COSTS - WE COULD BE DE FACTO RUNNING LOW OR RUNNING OUT NOW, AS ONLY OIL AS A STRATEGIC OR VITAL COMMODITY/
RESOURCE HAS A SCIENTIFIC "ABIOTIC THEORY" OF NATURAL REPLENISHMENT TO CALL ITS OWN???

And what we have on land, we want to place wasteful or unreliable, mostly energy-inefficient "GREEN TECHS", e.g. SOLAR-WIND FARMS. on it, as opposed to food crops to feed the masses.