Meteor and Comet strikes are the real threat to humanity

[Anonymous No.9935028]

And life on this planet. Not
>muh .008% increase in overall CO2 levels
These things have wiped out our civilization once before and have sent us back to the stone age (check out non wikipedia sources for the younger dryas impact event)

Nothing even comes close to holding a candle to the sheer level of destruction these events are capable of generating, and we have absolutely zero recourse to avoid another one currently. For the most part this isnt even on peoples radars.

[Anonymous No.9935037]

Why can't we worry about both?

[Anonymous No.9935051]

>>9935028
>Nothing even comes close to holding a candle to the sheer level of destruction these events are capable of generating

[Anonymous No.9935078]

>>9935028
Humanity will easily survive underground on nuclear or geothermal energy. Humans can survive long term in space too, where there's solar energy available permanently. Surface world is overrated.

[Anonymous No.9935126]

>>9935028
>Earth is supposed to be spherically symmetric in space
>The closer to the equator you get the more concentrated it becomes
really makes you think

[Anonymous No.9935157]

>>9935028
almost no one is interested in sacrifice for the greater good, sorry.

[Anonymous No.9935294]

>>9935126
yeah it's almost as if bulk of comets and asteroids was maintining same general orbital pattern as the rest of the solar system
who would have guessed...

[Anonymous No.9935555]

>>9935294
>The solar plane is along the earths equator
top lel

[Anonymous No.9935562]

>>9935126

it is called map projection

[Anonymous No.9935570]

>>9935555

[Anonymous No.9935714]

>>9935562
>>9935294
SO which is it??

[Anonymous No.9935753]

>>9935126
>>Earth is supposed to be spherically symmetric in space
Provide one instance of anyone ever saying this.

[Anonymous No.9935904]

>>9935753
The antrotropic principle.

[Anonymous No.9935910]

Why worry about something if there's no counter play? If a giant meteor was coming at us that was big enough to actually cause major damage to the Earth, there's nothing we could really do about it.

At least with global warming there's ways to fight it

[Anonymous No.9935941]

Were actually very good at tracking objects in space large enough to cause harm. We monitor them closely and have plenty of ways to deal with potential threats depending on when we detect them. The real threat is an interstellar asteroid, often traveling at incredible speeds and very hard to detect until it might be too late. That being said, climate change is currently a greater threat to the continuation of humanity than an asteroid is at the moment.

[Anonymous No.9935947]

>>9935910
Its relatively easy to deflect an astrological body enough that it would miss, splattering white paint on one side is literally all it would take for a lot of objects.

[Anonymous No.9936072]

>>9935028
>(check out non wikipedia sources for the younger dryas impact event)
I checked out Wikipedia and it says that the dryas impact event is highly disputed, why do you back it?

[Anonymous No.9936081]

>>9936072
Thick layer of carboniferous material across much of the American continent, sharp increase in platinum levels in ice core samples, along with the carbon ash, the unexplained fields of glass in the Egyptian desert, and the sudden mass extinction of nearly all mega fauna at the time.

Its highly contested because of dogma and skepticism, but those things together, concretely prove it occurred.

[Anonymous No.9936088]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6arNiQt-g

[Anonymous No.9936095]

>>9935028
>Meteor and Comet strikes are the real threat to humanity

Yes.

>And life on this planet.

Not really -- life has survived a shit-ton f these things over the eons.

>Not muh .008% increase in overall CO2 levels

There can be more than one danger threatening us, friend. I agree that the CO2 threat is overstated, but it is a threat to some degree. As are other things.

> These things have wiped out our civilization once before and have sent us back to the stone age

Can you link to a source? I'm not interested in wading through several of them -- if you have one that you think is the best, I'll read that one.

> Nothing even comes close to holding a candle to the sheer level of destruction these events are capable of generating,

Would that it were so. Google "Gamma Ray Burst."

>and we have absolutely zero recourse to avoid another one currently. For the most part this isnt even on peoples radars.

True enough, though that is slowly changing -- we are at least making better attempts to survey and locate them. If we had a couple of years, at this point I'd think we'd have a shot at any of several methods of diverting an incoming rock.

It would be smarter to have the capacity to react within a month or two -- though the threat is pretty low for any given period of time, if it DOES happen we're fucked. The odds are good, but the pot is pretty fucking huge.

In the long run, the only way to safeguard the species is to spread the fuck out -- if we had sustainable populations off Earth, then no impact could take us out.

If we were around several stars, or had populations not anchored around a star, then no fuckery with the Sun could take us out. To avoid something like a gamma ray burst getting us, we'd have to spread out a fuck-ton.

But step one of all that is to get to where a rock can't wipe us out.

[Anonymous No.9936100]

>>9935126
Learn what map projections are and how they work.

[Anonymous No.9936103]

>>9935714
It's a little of both, mostly it's the projection

[Anonymous No.9936107]

>>9935904
Raspberries are delicious!

[Anonymous No.9936109]

[Anonymous No.9936452]

>>9935028
>muh .008% increase in overall CO2 levels
Congratulations on not understanding absorption cross sections. Unfortunately for you, this lack of understanding negates the false argument you were trying to make, but at least you have the opportunity to learn something new, and understand why your current reasoning is incorrect.

[Anonymous No.9936800]

>>9936072

[Anonymous No.9936806]

>>9936109
cringe

[Anonymous No.9936842]

>>9935078
>Humans can survive long term in space too, where there's solar energy available permanently.
if an apocalypse were confirmed to happen in 10 years and humanity dedicated 100% of its efforts to keeping humans alive permanently in space it would still not accomplish it

[Anonymous No.9936857]

>>9936109
This comic was a lot better before I found out the little girl at the end is actually a literal superhero or something.

[Anonymous No.9938039]

>>9936857
I guess learning it not always fun after all...