“I don’t see how we can do anything about it. (incoming space rocks)” Don’t be so gloomy.
Did you miss the two dramatic films a few years ago about such a scenario? I think the titles were “Deep Impact” and “Armagedon”. Bruce Willis was in one of them. One movie described landing on and drilling deep into the asteroid and setting off a nuclear device. More recent real life suggestions have been to detonate a rocket delivered nuclear device on the surface to cause a very slight deflection in the orbit. The longer lead time we had on the existance of an “incoming”, the better this much simpler technology would work. Thus the need to have lots of eyes both north and south look for them. Amateur astronomers have made significant contributions in finding new space objects.
Yep. Saw those. I also saw Galaxy Quest and a bunch of Star Trek shows over the years. The abilities in all those are just about co-equal in the “out of our reach, outside of our ability” as of yet.
I’m sure things will progress toward such abilities, unless the Progressives gain any more power. In that case it’ll be a reacquaintence with the good ol’ Dark Ages for sure and for certain.