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We don't know when the next big one is coming, because we don't have perfect knowledge of all objects in (or travelling through) our solar system. On the scale
by paranoidrobot 4y ago
We don't know when the next big one is coming, because we don't have perfect knowledge of all objects in (or travelling through) our solar system.
On the scale of things to be concerned about, I'd agree that Climate Change is definitely something that we should be proportionally spending more resource on.
We have the capability of solving multiple problems at once, though - it's not an all-or-nothing thing. So I think running observation/detection systems is worth it, even with the occasional news release about significant close-approaches.
- kitsunesoba 4y ago> We have the capability of solving multiple problems at once, though - it's not an all-or-nothing thing. So I think running observation/detection systems is worth it, even with the occasional news release about significant close-approaches. Well said, I agree. This applies to a lot of things that people often ask, “but shouldn’t we focus on X instead?” about. We have both the people and the resources to do multiple things at once, and we should, if only because it doesn’t help anybody to tell people who’ve spent a large chunk of their lives working on asteroid defense, rockets, crewed spaceflight, etc that their job is gone and they have to start over from scratch and work on X instead.