Comments on: Is 2007 TU24 A Wake Up Call?

By: Existential Risks, Wet Weather

Existential Risks, Wet Weather — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:22:53 +0000

[…] out of our control. What about risks from outer-space? You are probably familiar with the “large asteroid striking the planet” scenario. Here is an article about what havoc could be wreaked by a strong geomagnetic […]

By: John Boyd

John Boyd — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:02:38 +0000

Was TU24 visable from Florida, close to the sun, at 1430 hrs on January 28th?

By: Michael G.R.

Michael G.R. — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:34:53 +0000

I thought this was important enough, I wrote my own post about it: Near Earth Objects: We Can’t Beat the Odds Forever I linked here, of course. Thanks for your post, and keep up the good work at LF.

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Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:31:08 +0000

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By: Michael G.R.

Michael G.R. — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:03:27 +0000

We definitely need to take the risk from NEOs more seriously. That’s why I educated myself a bit about them and wrote some of what I found here:

Near Earth Objects and Asteroids: Are We Whistling in the Dark?.

I’m happy that Orbit@Home (http://orbit.psi.edu/) has got some NASA funding. According to the latest update, they’ll starting work next March. It makes a lot of sense to use a vast distributed computing network to try to track as many NEOs as possible, and having the public helping is another good way to spread the word (in the same way that, for example, Folding@Home is teaching lots of people about protein biology).

By: robomoon

robomoon — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:23:41 +0000

Prevent the impact of a NEO?

1st scenario: prevent impact. 100 percent of humanity survives. 200 years later, humanity has lowered biodiversity very much. 400 years later, humanity is getting extinct because of war and insufficient natural resources.

2nd scenario, do not prevent impact. 30 percent of humanity survives and biodiversity is getting much lower too. 100 years later, humanity is growing again. 10000 years later, biodiversity is getting better and humanity still exists.

3rd scenario, announce that you are able to prevent the impact of a great asteroid. Because of an accident, you miss to deflect a smaller asteroid on time. The country where the impact of the smaller asteroid would occur must be evacuated. 70 percent of humanity survives after the impact. Many people are upset that the impact happened while you had rockets to deflect it. Chaos and terror reigns which causes humans to start global war. 50 years later, humanity is getting extinct, mainly because of war.

To prevent what? That is the question.