Planetary Defense Net Phase One

The Biggest Lasers EVER (exawatts! that's 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 watts!) are going to be built somewhere in Europe, it sounds, by 2015.  I notice the list of things they are planning to research conveniently leaves out Blowing Crap Up--but you know that some scientist is going to write his initials on an asteroid when no one is looking.