[onlooker]

Yes you read it right. Either because of global warming or because well it would add another 6 billion years of life to our planet supposedly. What can I say all I can do is smile
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... ign=buffer

[Cid_Yama]

Interesting. there was a prophetess named Vanga in Bulgaria. She died in 1996. She predicted a slight change in the Earth's orbit.

Other predictions include the melting of the polar ice caps. (before there was even a hint)

China as a major economic power, while developing countries were controlled by exploiters.

9/11

That Muslims would populate Europe.

Human Machine interface.

Gordon Brown as PM when nobody had ever heard of him. Putin, Merkel, Netanyahu.

Her predictions seem to have been good on substance, put people who worked with her said she did not like to give dates on catastrophes, because of the effect it would have on those hearing it.

Thus, dates were unreliable. She predicted a world war in Europe in which nuclear weapons would be used and devastate the population there, followed by a Muslim caliphate, as Muslims moved north.

The war would start conventionally. It was supposed to have happened while Gordon Brown was PM in the UK.

She mentioned Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland in connection with this.

Much of what she predicted seemed outrageous at the time, but from today's perspective they no longer seem so outrageous.

[PrestonSturges]

But all my friends go to school here!

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'B')ut all my friends go to school here!

[Newfie]

"It's just basic rocket science." Love it.

What could go wrong?

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[onlooker]

I just hope they keep our planet within the goldilocks zone, or else we will not have a planet capable of sustaining much life. Wait a minute aren't we already in the process of making our planet incapable of sustaining life. Oops.

[JV153]

Is it April 1st again ?

[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JV153', 'I')s it April 1st again ?

[dissident]

Because America gets to decide for the rest of humanity what will be done with planet Earth.

Talk about self-anointed exceptionalist hubris.

Maybe America will be moved first.

[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', 'B')ecause America gets to decide for the rest of humanity what will be done with planet Earth.

Talk about self-anointed exceptionalist hubris.

Maybe America will be moved first.

[Tanada]

If you look at the article linked too you will see it was published
Saturday 9 June 2001 21.18 EDT

[JV153]

Is Alfred E Neuman running NASA, or what ?

[Kylon]

Reminds me of an episode of Futurama, where all of Robot kind is sentenced to death because they polluted so much that it caused the planet to overheat.

So all the robots were on one island, and they all vented their fumes at one time in the same direction, and it moved Earth slightly away from the Sun, stopping the catastrophe.

I'm really glad to hear that NASA is going to save the world with a possible, doable last minute type of solution that could theoretically work (not without risk though).

This means I don't need to worry about it anymore. It can be somebody else's problem.

[Shaved Monkey]

Im worried my bananas will take longer to ripen

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kylon', 'R')eminds me of an episode of Futurama, where all of Robot kind is sentenced to death because they polluted so much that it caused the planet to overheat.

So all the robots were on one island, and they all vented their fumes at one time in the same direction, and it moved Earth slightly away from the Sun, stopping the catastrophe.

I'm really glad to hear that NASA is going to save the world with a possible, doable last minute type of solution that could theoretically work (not without risk though).

This means I don't need to worry about it anymore. It can be somebody else's problem.

[Kylon]

They probably wouldn't mess this up. Primarily because there is a huge military application here.


Imagine the United States Government, having thousands of Asteroids in orbit around there Earth, ready to be deployed anywhere the U.S is having a problem.

No nuclear fallout, no radiation, just death from above, a hurling rock of doom coming from outer space to obliterate the U.S enemies.

It's like nuclear weapons, except U.S corporations can move in afterwords and harvest whatever resources were there, without having to worry about the resources being contaminated by radiation.

So yah, it's not just a "lets help save the planet" kind of thing. It's something the U.S government and the major corporations in the U.S and large banks could quickly recoup their cost from. The military advantage would be such they could in the long run easily make 100 fold what it cost them to do the operation, if they did it right (with robots with at least a minimal level of generalized intelligence, which could be achieved by planning for the majority of contingencies).

You see for the U.S military/corporations this would be a super gravy train. However normally there would be opposition from militarizing space, from collecting Asteroids to pummel into the Earth. But if everybody is getting wiped out from global warming, then countries may actually BEG the U.S to do this, and then after the U.S has moved the Earth a little ways away from it's previous position, then they recoup their cost by extracting concessions from all of these countries.

In the process the U.S military develops all the technology to militarize space, gets the support of the American people (and the rest of the world) for nuclear fission based rocket propelled spaceships (a very dirty way of flying into space, but super efficient and cheap). And with the development of a cheap nuclear powered space shuttle program the U.S corporations then have the viability to actually start sending out remote mining droids (the same technology for harvesting asteroids could be used to harvest mineral rich asteroids, thus providing the U.S a source of nuclear fuel, and expensive minerals).

So yah, I think they might actually do it. If for no other reason than the tactical military advantage of asteroids as weapons. Or weapons that function like nuclear weapons but allow you to extract all the resources afterwords.

[radon1]

Funny idea (auto-translated)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '-') The solution of the problem lies in an unexpected direction, namely, let's take a spaceship very small.