Panic: Government shutdown threatens to impair asteroid preparedness

http://twitter.com/#!/norightturnnz/status/384879363751030784

The Asteroid Watch Twitter feed exists to “detect, track and characterize potentially hazardous asteroids and comets that could approach Earth.” And in the event of a government shutdown, the @AsteroidWatch Twitter feed will go dark along with the nation’s Panda Cam.

http://twitter.com/#!/GCallah/status/384880778746028032
http://twitter.com/#!/JasonGraziadei/status/384881037785829376

Is this true, or is it just a last-minute ploy to scare the House GOP into sending a clean continuing resolution to the Senate tonight? No, it’s true.

http://twitter.com/#!/HayesBrown/status/384879838609563648
http://twitter.com/#!/DavidUberti/status/384881084648808449

Now is it time to panic?

http://twitter.com/#!/bborzyko/status/384881909794603008
http://twitter.com/#!/HayesBrown/status/384880297281847296
http://twitter.com/#!/ARStrasser/status/384881033780666368

The Twitter feed might succumb to the shutdown, but Asteroid Watch will still be watching the skies, right?

http://twitter.com/#!/dwallbank/status/384881559544676352

Well? Uh oh. They said they wouldn’t respond…

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/09/30/panic-government-shutdown-threatens-to-impair-asteroid-preparedness/