Here's why NASA is ramming a spacecraft into an asteroid

[Cosmik Debris]

In five billion years time, one would hope that we would have moved past the confines of the solar system by then..

At the cosmological speed limit which is the speed of light?

 

[wingnut771]

Jupiter got hit by a comet. How many billion people can Jupiter's moon support and who decides who will be going?

I guess by then we would have evolved to pure energy beings so wouldn't take up that much space.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

So because we didn't have the technology in the pastto do anything about it we should just accept that the human race might be wiped out?

Every life form goes extinct. Its a matter of time.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

I guess by then we would have evolved to pure energy beings so wouldn't take up that much space.

I don't do SciFi. I do reality.

 

[wingnut771]

I don't do SciFi. I do reality.

Then why bring up Red Giant Sun in 5 billion years?

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Then why bring up Red Giant Sun in 5 billion years?

Because it's a definite extinction event. All other earth life extinction events are speculative.

 

[ForceFate]

I don't do SciFi. I do reality.

I don't necessarily agree with him but remember landing on the surface of the moon would have been regarded SciFi many many many millennia ago. The concept of "science" didn't even exist but here we are today, with our creations on the farthest reaches of the solar system.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

I don't necessarily agree with him but remember landing on the surface of the moon would have been regarded SciFi many many many millennia ago. The concept of "science" didn't even exist but here we are today, with our creations on the farthest reaches of the solar system.

Landing on the moon falls within the realm of physics. DNA evolving into pure energy does not. That is biology, not physics and few biologists would even entertain the possibility.

 

[Cray]

At the cosmological speed limit which is the speed of light?

Why are you asking questions you already know the answer to?

 

[LaraC]

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These spots according to scientists.

North America and Australia were on the universes hit list.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Why are you asking questions you already know the answer to?

Because it seems you don't know the answers...

 

[wingnut771]

Because it seems you don't know the answers...

What is the question again?

 

[Cosmik Debris]

What is the question again?

Managing to escape the solar system at the cosmological speed limit...

 

[Solarion]

Gonna have to build my future bunker just a little bit deeper down I think.

 

[Cray]

Managing to escape the solar system at the cosmological speed limit...

5 billion years mate...

 

[Cray]

Because it seems you don't know the answers...

Do tell Cosmik, are you that certain that mankind could never leave our solar system? Mankind's first powered flight was only 120 years ago, are you that willing to predicate what technology might will be able to accomplish in 1000 years, or 10 000 years, or a million years?

 

[Cosmik Debris]

5 billion years mate...

How old will you be then?

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Do tell Cosmik, are you that certain that mankind could never leave our solar system? Mankind's first powered flight was only 120 years ago, are you that willing to predicate what technology might will be able to accomplish in 1000 years, or 10 000 years, or a million years?

Whatever technology there is, it still cannot violate the laws of physics. The cosmological speed limit is one of those. Even starlight obeys it.

 

[Cray]

How old will you be then?

Do you only care about things you will be alive to experience?

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Do you only care about things you will be alive to experience?

What would you be able to care about after you die?