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Would an asteroid which could collide with the Earth in 2036 be a good thing?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,14493,1660485,00.html
I think in a few years time if it seen as a global threat it may have positive effects .. maybe get people to focus on working together rather then fighting each other.
I think in a few years time if it seen as a global threat it may have positive effects .. maybe get people to focus on working together rather then fighting each other.
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that could be a good thing though in logn run
I don't believe for 1 second people wouldn't be able to save themselves if all nations worked together and had say 10 years warning - would be good for mankind give them something to aim for .. a common set of goals.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6971216.stm
yeh humans as a species will survive, but i doubt most people on this planet will
at least those nuclear bunkers will come in handy
You can bet your bottom dollar that if a massive asteroid was certain to hit the earth on Sunday and end civilisation as we know it, you'd still have people trying to sell you stuff or nicking your valuables on the Saturday. Many would probably stay in their homes looking after shoeboxes stuffed with their savings, regardless of the fact that the survivors of such an event wouldn't have any use for banknotes other than perhaps wiping their arses with them.
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So to answer the original question an asteroid colliding with the Earth would be a very bad thing. even if the Governments worked together from 2026-36, they store up so many problems and resentments the years from 2037 on would be quite bloody.
Oh come on!
Its the Daily Mail we are talking about here. There has got to be some mention of assylum seekers.
Well actually I meant they would work together to blow the asteroid up in space or redirect BEFORE it ever hit the earth
There was a good movie about this with Sean Connery ...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079550/
Scientists explain how
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You won't be laughing when it's our diplomacy that convinces the asteroid to comprimise and change it's course.
What's this nonsense about people looking after their savings or whatever... yes some people would probably do that; some others would spend their last night masturbating; others would party; some would fight...
People's behaviour would be entirely dependent on their own personalities; using "human nature" as a lazy way to say "all people are essentially greedy, stupid and violent" is not only, well, lazy and ignorant, but also depends on a specific view of human nature taken as fact, a coherent and convincing explanation of which I doubt you could provide. Is there even such a thing as human nature?
If governments, cults, groups, quacks or heroes got their acts together and started some Movements based on our impending doom, yes, people would join up. Not everyone, though, because people make their own decisions; if they shared the elusive single 'human nature' then it would be easy to get everybody on board the Save Yourselves And Loot From The Dead movement.
Why would the comet make the world a better place? If eeevil human nature does indeed exist like some of you claim then we're all screwed anyway, and in any case a 'reset button' argument is just nihilistic rubbish (disguised as idealistic nonsense).
How about :
"SWAN-EATING IMMIGRANTS FLEE APPROACHING ASTEROID"