We showed how it was done....then.
A prime argument against voting for any person that suggests we stay earthbound.
Some day in the future its going to happen, the odds are not on our side of a planetary impact event, either we build a defense against it or we build a way to survive it elsewhere, even if it requires sending spacecraft to Mars with nothing but embryos in storage for every species on Earth, an ark of some sort, a base to terraform, anything to perpetuate the species.
It starts here and now.
Some day in the future its going to happen, the odds are not on our side of a planetary impact event, either we build a defense against it or we build a way to survive it.
EXACTLY, We have to at least go to the moon, attach large rockets with thrust into the moon in 8 directions. That way we can use it to sheild us from a threat...like a pool ball. That`s the ticket!