Spike
Diamond Member
we could track a good portion of the sky and build satellites that were armed to stop the rocks. In fact, we are looking at a modern "Star Wars" defense right now, the only issue is will other countries sit back while the US puts satellites in orbit with nukes on board? I mean, how hard is it to flip a satellite so that it is facing down instead of up? not very.
We are taking steps towards a better knowledge of space and the dangers out there, it is just veeeeeeeery slow. Give us a few hundred years and we may have a defense and even some colonies on other planets. I am willing to bet we have somoene on mars within the next 20 years, maybe by that time we will stop figthing each-other and look upward
On that fighting each other note... there were some issues talked about earlier, like the mutually assured destruction idea. ie, if we get nuked we will make sure those responsible die right along with us. The only error in this is what if a terrorist gets there hands on a nuke and uses it in the US or Europe? who do we nuke back? We cannot attack another country because they were not really responsible. That is what has our gov't so freaked out
We are taking steps towards a better knowledge of space and the dangers out there, it is just veeeeeeeery slow. Give us a few hundred years and we may have a defense and even some colonies on other planets. I am willing to bet we have somoene on mars within the next 20 years, maybe by that time we will stop figthing each-other and look upward
On that fighting each other note... there were some issues talked about earlier, like the mutually assured destruction idea. ie, if we get nuked we will make sure those responsible die right along with us. The only error in this is what if a terrorist gets there hands on a nuke and uses it in the US or Europe? who do we nuke back? We cannot attack another country because they were not really responsible. That is what has our gov't so freaked out
