While I do not disagree with your 1000 year view of our potential, we
currently have all of our eggs, literally, sitting in one basket on this
Earth. We need to solve that as well as detection, interception of the bad
stuff headed our way.
Love your robots. Curiosity should have a front row seat to that comet
approaching mars next year.
On Monday, February 25, 2013, Jed Rothwell wrote:
> ChemE Stewart <cheme...@gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'cheme...@gmail.com');>> wrote:
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>> It will probably be a comet that takes us out at some point.
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> Those things are not that difficult to stop, if we have 20 to 100 years
> warning. We have successfully sent semi-autonomous robots to Mars. That
> level of technology would be sufficient to stop just about any comet with a
> 20-year warning.
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> A century from now we will have far better space technology. 500 to 1,000
> years from now I expect most of the solar system will be inhabited and we
> will be harvesting comets and asteroids.
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> - Jed
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