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A fancy space station isn't going to do much good if a giant asteroid hits Earth and creates another extinction event (which will happen, it's just a matter of
by jonknee 11y ago
A fancy space station isn't going to do much good if a giant asteroid hits Earth and creates another extinction event (which will happen, it's just a matter of when).
- jimrandomh 11y agoSpotting and deflecting asteroids away from earth is challenging, but feasible with present technology and there are groups working on it. (A feat tardigrades could never hope to accomplish, but they get to freeload off our achievement in this case.)
- idlewords 11y agoDude, lay off the tardigrades. Let's at least deflect one or two asteroids before we start accusing other creatures of freeloading.