[FPSPACE] Yeah, but can it reliably find 75 meter dead comet fragmens?

[LARRY KLAES]

Should we really be trying to stop large space objects from hitting Earth?

NEOs do seem to be nature's way of forcing intelligent species to grow up
fast and get out of their planetary cradles, or face extinction.  We have 
found
many stars with thick disks of dust and presumably planetoids and comets
circling them, so the life in virtually every system with organic beings 
must
have to deal with this same mechanism of get out or die.  Perhaps this is
one answer to the Fermi Paradox.

The dinosaurs never achieved spaceflight or even serious tool use in their
160 million years of existence as far as we know, thus nature intervened to
make a new species that would get the ball rolling, which humans have
ultimately done in just a few million years on this planet.  Of course we
will have to do more than the ISS in order for our species to survive, but
it is a start.

As a famous Russian space scientist once said, we cannot live in the cradle
forever, it's just not healthy.  In celestial terms, it is even downright 
dangerous.

So let's get as many people and other flora and fauna as we deem necessary
off Earth while we can, so that we present many targets for Nature to aim 
at.
She can't get us all and we won't have to worry about Earth.  It's been hit
before and recovered just fine without us.

If we continue to stay on Earth and remove the one thing that is the
equivalent of a good swift kick in the pants, we will eventually die from
overpopulation, a lack of resources, and general malaise and stagnation.

We became just intelligent enough to realize this hazard from the Cosmos,
now let us heed Nature's warning and head out into the Final Frontier, 
rather
than sit on porch with a loaded rifle.

Larry


>From: "E.P. Grondine" <epgrondine at hotmail.com>
>To: "FPSPACE at friends-partners.org" <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
>Subject: [FPSPACE] Yeah,but can it reliably find 75 meter dead comet 
>fragmens?
>Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:16:00 -0500
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>
>http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/01/russias-millime.html
>
>All fine and dandy, but is it of any real use in dealing with the immediate 
>problem: the impacts of comets and comet fragments with the Earth?
>
>And how do they plan to launch it, how do they plan to control its 
>attitude, and better yet, how do they plan to power it?
>
>E.P. Grondine
>Man and Impact in the Americas
>
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