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I once met some people involved in Planetary Defense. One of them launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund development of his concept, the Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle. The crowdfunding campaign only raised some 4% of the needed funs. Nobody wanted to pay to save the Earth!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-defend-earth-against...

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TBH it's difficult to take serious any campaign running through these crowdfunding platforms. My "scam alert" sirens start to go off any time I see these kind of links.

I don't know this for a fact, but I suspect the Principal Investigator was sold a bunch of baloney from the crowdsource outfit. They do take a large portion of the funding, after all. The PI had already been through Phase I and Phase II of NASA funding and likely went to crowdfunding because he lost Phase III.

https://www.nasa.gov/general/an-innovative-solution-to-nasas...

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