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Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde
Can you think of any one event other than an asteroid that could literally obliterate all of humanity? That is currently technologically available? Humans are versatile as fuck and crazy adaptable. SOME will survive ANY catastrophe, even worldwide nuclear war. But it's hard to think any humans will survive after a large asteroid impact. Even then, look at what happened after the disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs. Lots of life survived.
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Asteroids alone are pretty big on the extinction scale, humans with asteroids is bigger, for now.
We need to be able to track asteroids a lot better, priority should be on giving us enough time to react. I have concerns that if we start juggling the balls too soon we might drop a few.
edeet:
http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/b.../1/94-1394.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroi...ology_concerns
Just found this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B612_Foundation