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Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 3:51 am
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Been wondering. (as an extrapolation from other topics)
What are your thoughts on human civilization.
Do most people here really believe we'll go the distance and die out only when the sun runs out of fuel?
By that stage, I'd imagine that we would unrecognisable as humans anyway and may have left earth long before.
If we did perish before that (dead sun), what do you believe would be the most likely cause.
I actually want to ask a "psych" question.
Let's assume that tomorrow, we discover a whopper asteroid hurtling straight towards earth!
This is one that is thousands of miles wide!
Does anyone know how far out we can accurately measure these things? We will have a month's notice, 5 years?
What would we our humans do? As Govt's. As individuals?
do you think we can recover from it?
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RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 3:56 am
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Pollfail: "human causes" should be one option.
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RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 4:01 am
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RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 4:26 am
If the earth was hit with a 1000 km asteroid, it would be like shoot an orange with a .22 Personally I think the most likely end is from a artificially enhanced virus getting lose on accident and the government being more concerned with covering their own ass then helping the world stop it.
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RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 4:29 am
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RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 4:30 am
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And as for how far we can measure asteriods and detect when they will hit us its really a matter of discovering it. Once we have the data of its movement which is easily recorded by a amateur we can predict its orbit fairly easily, so potentially we could have 100s of years warning. Or if it's a extra solar object that hits us from the direct of the sun it could be as little as 24 hrs.
Oh yeah btw ever see the movie deep impact? Yeah that's pretty much how we would discover it.
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July 25, 2015 at 4:43 am
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RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 6:41 am
(July 25, 2015 at 4:26 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: If the earth was hit with a 1000 km asteroid, it would be like shoot an orange with a .22 Personally I think the most likely end is from a artificially enhanced virus getting lose on accident and the government being more concerned with covering their own ass then helping the world stop it.
Someone's been playing too much Resident Evil me thinks!
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RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 8:00 am
(July 25, 2015 at 4:26 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: If the earth was hit with a 1000 km asteroid, it would be like shoot an orange with a .22 Personally I think the most likely end is from a artificially enhanced virus getting lose on accident and the government being more concerned with covering their own ass then helping the world stop it. You know that the lab rats have added two new nucleotides to the DNA sequence, P and Z. Haven't released the structure yet.
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RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 8:09 am
You mentioned "psych". I'll take that as would the world freak out. Depends on the amount of time until impact. If day or weeks, I think I'd knock off a liqueur store and pharmacy, have one last party and big toast goodbye, go out peacefully. At the end it will not be pretty.
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