Save Earth from asteroid threat

Considering there is a lot of smart people out there reading blogs, I will post a link to this off topic article. Who knows, maybe you can be the key to save our little planet Earth. The Planetary Society is donating a big sum of US dollars in prize money to the person who designs a system for tagging and tracking this asteroid. So don't ask what Earth can do for you, ask yourself instead what you can do for our beloved Earth. I will start chrunching ideas as of this moment.

Apophis is 300-400m big rock, (read asteroid) that has a slim chance colliding and hitting Earth in 2036, which of course would put us back to the cave era or worse.

Read the article here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/14/asteroids_competition/