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June 30th is Asteroid Day!
Quadibloc:
Of course, just *one* asteroid equivalent to the one that killed the dinosaurs, if it hits, would leave none of us around to worry about, let alone deal with, the next one. You don't mean that literally? Myriad species, including mammals already ascending, survived the Yucatan event, and Homo sapiens would survive an event of similar or even greater magnitude. Things would no doubt be difficult for a period, with agriculture being hit hard due to reduced photosynthesis, but given the near certainty that survivors would include persons steeped in every field of human knowledge, and that most of the world's infrastructure would survive, civilization would recover. And a *lesser* strike might cause enough economic damage to lessen our means to create a system to defend against asteroids, even if it meant we now had the will. It wouldn't matter. Given the infrequency of such events, there would be plenty of time to think about a defense system, or rather, to think about whether a defense system is possible. I don't think that there is agreement on the latter question at this time. In the USA we have to hope that Democrats are running FEMA when such an event occurs. -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm |
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