Asteroid 1950 set for collision course with Earth!

[faded glory]

Hope we have gravitrons and repulser fields bye then.

[Sava]

Nobody will bother to blow it up because nobody wants to pay for the massive expense. In the end, capitalism kills us!

[Seeker]

"gravitrons"

But we do! haven't you ever ridden the Gravitron?

It is the flying saucer like amusement park ride, you get inside, it spins, and you get to walk around on the walls, perpendicular to the ground?

[Triped]

Bah...I have absolute faith that nothing catastrophic will ever happen to Earth. Anti-disaster technology seems to move faster than the asteroids.

[faded glory]

dont be stupid. Capitalism will evolved into more efficient process.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by faded glory
Hope we have gravitrons and repulser fields bye then.

Boooring!!! I want to see big bangs and explosions using devices with yields in the teratons. Far more fun than just nudging it a bit

And drake, you're cruising for a bruising

[Sava]

Originally posted by faded glory
dont be stupid. Capitalism will evolved into more efficient process.

Don't hold your breath... if the last 200 years are any indication of the level of progress, we're DOOMED!!

[drake]

By 2880 the human race will have already branched out to life on other planets. So Earth might be ****ed? So what? Got plenty of time to find a new planet to screw up, I mean live on.

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, but why would we want to put ourselves through attempting to relocate billions of people when we can just blow the asteroid to pieces!

[orange]

Provost will STILL be searching for his first girlfriend

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by problem_child
The Relativity Federation does not come into existance until after the trans-warp-temporal-reverser dual-coil is implemented in Time-Tunneler Device v.6.1.2 in 2895.

Yes, but the inventor of the implementation would perish in the collision - if they would let the planet be destroyed in 2880, it would postpone the Relativity Federation's, and respectively the Timefleet's, birth by almost 200 years... originally it was born in 3092.

There's a reason for the names Relativity Federation, not to mention Timefleet...

[Provost Harrison]

Hey, leave me out of it. You never know what might happen in the next few years

[Kassiopeia]

If there will be something in existence, it'll be hope.

[faded glory]

Originally posted by Sava


Don't hold your breath... if the last 200 years are any indication of the level of progress, we're DOOMED!!

Are you an idiot? The last 200 years have been awesome for the advancemen of mankind. Unless you would rather liked riding around in wagons and work as a fuedal peasant.

[Sava]

Originally posted by drake
By 2880 the human race will have already branched out to life on other planets. So Earth might be ****ed? So what? Got plenty of time to find a new planet to screw up, I mean live on.

I might have to disagree with you on this. Human beings have been around for nearly 20,000 years. Modern civilization as we know it has been around about 5000 years. 800 years is an awfully short time for such a drastic change.

A few select groups of people with the available technology might be able to live on other planets. But at that point, the environment might change the way humans develop. In zero gravity, a child growing up will not develop the muscle tissue needed to support itself on a planet with gravity.

And as of yet, the technology for a self-sufficient contained unit isn't there. Humans in any other environment, the moon, mars, etc, would need a level of technology to be able to use the new environment to sustain life. I don't think that the technology can be found in 800 years to handle human habitation due to the rate of growth in the last 100 years. Too many social problems will occur in the next 100 years alone that will require solving. With the current rate of population growth (doubling every 20-25 years) there will be approximately 1.3194139 * 10^23 people.

Sooner, rather than later, human population will reach that maximum level of sustenance on this planet. When that happens, there will be many more problems to deal with.