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[Ganado]

Quite awesome to see such a spectacle, though I hope no one got seriously injured and the damage done to the enviroment isn't too high.

Sorry but, damage to the environment? You mean from the asteroid itself? Meteors burn up in the atmosphere every day, this one was just bigger than usual, its effect on the environment isn't much of a concern.

I too hope people weren't seriously injured, but I'm also glad this event, along with the coincidental 2012 DA14 asteroid, might serve as a wake-up call to the fact that there should be measures to deflect/change the trajectory of large asteroids that could destroy cities/cause tsunamis, or worse. If discovered early enough, it could be relatively simple to push a large asteroid off its collision course. Technology needs to be improved to have better reliability on detecting NEOs.

[Vile]

I'd pay a fortune for a chunk of that stone !

If discovered early enough, it could be relatively simple to push a large asteroid off its collision course.

You watched too much Armageddon.

[Ganado]

Repulsion force to change asteroid's trajectory by a few centimeters ≠ asteroid being nuked. It's totally plausible if detected early enough.

[Mr Feltzer]

use a big ass laser to slice it into multiple pieces, small enough to completely evaporate in atmosphere.

[Vile]

Repulsion force to change asteroid's trajectory by a few centimeters ≠ asteroid being nuked. It's totally plausible if detected early enough.

Yea, IKR, but thats not the point.  The point is theres by FAR neither the proper technology for that, nor can be the trajectory paths be 100% calculated, nor is there enough data on the properties of big fucking rawwkits or any vehicle outside of our gravity sphere. Asides from some space probes, maybe they can go out on a suicide mission to crash into some asteroid ? :>
For those few centimeters to have an effect, that asteroid needs to be intercepted early on. For such operations, there are no means yet.

Meanwhile, enjoy the fireworks. It's good to remind the human species once in a while that they are, in fact, worms.

[Ganado]

I believe there are plans to launch a satellite with improved technology for scanning for Near-Earth Objects, though I don't remember where I heard this, I think it was on the news some time. But yes, it does sound more sci-fi than anything else, but I still think the point is that it is possible to develop the technology/means.

[Creep]

"...which culminated in over 950 Russian severely injured or dead. In related news, NCR Bazaar just got 950 times safer! Back to you, Tom."