Well, let’s see.
So far, asteroids have killed no one as far as we know.
In the 20’th century alone, leftism killed upwards of a 100 million people.
You decide.
Communist dictators, cult of self (throw in there electronic devices that hold us prisoner), volcanoes, and growing disbelief in God are the greatest threats.
Galaga was a more challenging video game, Asteroids was easy!
Put a sign in orbit pointing out Mecca.
Paging Captain Obvious - your clue is ready to be picked up at the customer service desk.
Put the resources into colonizing the solar system and mining those rocks which would easily solve this problem by the time we would discover the next one aiming for Earth.
Let me guess ...
The solution involves the United States shipping billions of taxpayer dollars somewhere.
Right?
Those murdering devil-worshipping bastards known as Muslims, as opposed to those murdering devil-worshipping bastards known as communists.
We already have a telescope network that can detect incoming asteroids. The thing we need now is to be able to destroy them. I vote we do nothing but encourage the development of private enterprise space mining operations. The asteroids that come close to us are the ones we want to mine , so its a win-win.
No. The biggest challenge is overcoming the tricks of Satan and finding your way to the narrow path to heaven.
Read http://october-5-2017.com#welcome
or watch video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnpbCZ9c-pQ
I always thot Ms. Pac-Man was more challenging.
ML/NJ
Well, mine gives me problems on occasion,,, oh asteroids.
Don’t understand all the hullaballo....
If you just rub some medicated cream on a asteroid, it will eventually go away.....
Okay.
1) Our home is 120 miles North of Yellowstone, home of the National Park and a quaint geological feature commonly referred to as a volcano all by the same name.
2) Past political policies have encouraged an unknown number of criminal/oblique stroke/terrorist individuals and groups to enter this country.
3) This article repeats the prospect of objects of various size striking the earth.
I’m sure there are more threats to my family that I could list, but just considering these three and establishing personal priorities to deal with ‘em, I do believe that I’ll go out and load some more .40S&W.
That new Glock is a sweet shooter, but the thing goes through rounds plumb quick.
“So far, experts have managed to list more than 90 percent of asteroids in the dino-killing range, and determined that none poses an immediate threat.”
Civilization-killing asteroids are the very definition of a low-probability, high-impact event. Given that the impact level would be SO high, I think that cooperation between the major space-faring nations, along with some money to actual build advanced detection gear and multi-layered defenses, is warranted. If we spent $5 billion/year between all of the nations, then in 20 years or less we could have some shot at surviving a big asteroid. $5 billion/year between the US, Russia, China, Japan, France, Germany, England, Israel and India is peanuts - more is wasted on stupid studies on why frisbees fly, or how long the penis of some bug is, so let’s spend it on something worthwhile.
100 years or so from now, I don’t worry about a coordinated defense - I think that our technology will be advanced enough that any of the listed nations would be able to destroy or push out of the way ANY asteroid headed our way, provided that there is enough warning (and by then we should have colonies on the Moon, Mars, in low Earth orbit and perhaps in the Asteroid Belt - so we’ll have PLENTY of warning.
No, it is not an immediate problem - that’s why I suggest cooperation and a low level of expenditures. It is in the nature of a life insurance policy for someone who is healthy and in their 20s, and who doesn’t take abnormal risks - probably it is a waste of money (but not much) and if it is needed, then not having it is catastrophic.
I would think that Hemorrhoids, not Asteroids, would be a greater concern to billions of people but I could be wrong.
Preparation H - never leave home without it!
If an asteroid is coming, I guess our old “Run, Duck, Cover” isn’t going to work anymore. Gee I miss the old days of just the threat of Soviet nukes hitting us. At least we could strike back.
“Asteroids: Taking Out the Dinosaurs like Putin takes out his enemies”.