Comments on: ATLAS — Watchmen To The Hour That The Sky Falls In https://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/02/atlas-watchmen-to-the-hour-that-the-sky-falls-in Safeguarding Humanity Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Tom Kerwick https://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/02/atlas-watchmen-to-the-hour-that-the-sky-falls-in#comment-160745 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:49:59 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=6681#comment-160745 Gary — very true — just because a large impact is historically rare, does not mean such an event (or events) cannot occur on shorter time-scales, and with relatively little time to react. Comet ISON was only discovered on 21 September 2012, and will cross our orbital path later this year. On a different trajectory we would have had a level-10 on the Torino scale with not much more than 12 months to counteract. The point I was making is that the smaller impacts such as the one over Russia a few weeks ago do occur quite regularly — and are a consistent threat — which will be the focus of ATLAS. Unfortunately, the more rare an event is, the harder it is to attain investment for the appropriate response systems.

]]> By: GaryChurch https://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/02/atlas-watchmen-to-the-hour-that-the-sky-falls-in#comment-160651 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:08:18 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=6681#comment-160651 “Fortunately, the frequency of such an object striking Earth is quite low — perhaps once every 100,000 years.”

Unfortunately, for practical purposes such an impact is random. On the scale of geologic time we could get hit by two dinosaur killers and it would just be a blip on that convenient probability curve.

]]> By: artmm https://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/02/atlas-watchmen-to-the-hour-that-the-sky-falls-in#comment-160286 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:23:16 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=6681#comment-160286 If the impact throws enough particles into the atmosphere then no food will grow and World War C will begin.

]]> By: artmm https://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/02/atlas-watchmen-to-the-hour-that-the-sky-falls-in#comment-160284 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:20:59 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=6681#comment-160284 since it going to pass thouge the sun cant it beak in to pices

]]> By: PirateRo https://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/02/atlas-watchmen-to-the-hour-that-the-sky-falls-in#comment-160255 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:27:05 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=6681#comment-160255 We need infrastructure on and around Earth, in the middle solar system, at the solar system’s edge and some distance outside the solar system in a 3D spherical layered system to provide capability and choice of response to these hazards. We also need a means by which we can take control of the direction our sun take through space so we can maneuver ourselves out of the way of what we cannot destroy or deflect. Somebody gotta drive the bitch.

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