Real talk, an asteroid wiping us out would only expedite the inevitable. If we could pull together and deflect an asteroid, there's hope. If not, we failed the test and die with the consequences. But we don't need the asteroid to fail this test. We're making great strides towards destroying our home with home field advantage.
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Gotta give it to humanity, though. We're damn good at ruining everything we touch.
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Also there's this survey that shows we actually would prefer stopping climate change instead of fighting war.
https://kbin.run/m/[email protected]/t/505138/Most-people-in-petrostates-want-quick-switch-to-clean-energy
We'd rather bomb each other than save the planet.
If ace combat has taught me anything, it's that there's no reason we can't do both
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Call me an optimist, but I think that if an android was actually going to destroy life as we know it, nations would do everything in their power to advert the disaster.
you really think ONE android could wipe out life as we know it?
Well, if you allow CELL to gobble up that one android...
"According to The Atlantic, an asteroid that weighs more than 1.7 quadrillion metric tons could sterilize Earth by raising the temperature of its water above 100°C. This asteroid would be 10–1,000 times heavier than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and would be between 60–96 kilometers (37–60 miles) wide."
The Atlantic article itself is paywalled, but yes, and it's entirely dependent on the mass of said Asteroid.
i'm not worried because an android that heavy couldn't even stand up
Id imagine it doesn't have to really move fast, just has to sit in the right spot and wait for our orbit around the sun to smash us into it?
Now, if we were talking about one Nokia...
🤣 just visualizing the United Nations Assembly talking turns curb stomping some poor android.
Yeah, I mean it'd at least need to be two androids, right? I've seen terminator.
I'm roundaboutly reminded of one of my favorite novels - Greener Than You Think, by Ward Moore.
It's a science fiction story about the end of the world that was written in the late 40s. The proximate cause of the end is all of the landmasses of Earth being smothered by a gigantic and very aggressive strain of Bermuda grass, but the real cause is the utter and complete failure, due to ignorance, greed, selfishness, short-sightedness, incompetence, arrogance and so on, of every attempt to combat it.
Half the population would believe the asteroid is a hoax spread by the [insert ethnic or religious group here].
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Congress is making laws about bathrooms and genitals like a bunch of 6th graders running a minecraft server. Of course we can't handle fucking asteroid defense.
It reminds me of how tech companies are all scrambling to use AI. There was a funny article recently where the author pointed out that these companies are struggling to do very basic things, so the idea that they could somehow tackle AI in a way that's useful and profitable is silly.
Maybe the 10 commandments posted in every Louisiana classroom will stop the asteroids.
I’m not sure I learned anything new other than I want to play the tabletop game they created.
Don't Look Up!
No shit.