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		SlipperySlope on April 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One billionaire's mission to bring a 500-ton aster... I got it. So the investors chose that asteroid diameter so as to minimize potential damage due to an impact on Earth.

korussian on April 20, 2012 [–]

They probably choose that asteroid diameter to say exactly the above: i.e. "relax, it can't hurt you."

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