Not to pick on Mike Brotherton
Jan. 6th, 2009 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollBut I nicked both of these fairly terrible articles from him.
Will an event of a sort that logic tells us must have happened to the Solar system many many times in the past DOOM the EARTH?
Or will it just require more shielding on satellites? I know alarmism attracts eyeballs (I mean, why else would I be composing an article speculating that LJ will turn management of its computers over to a team composed of HAL, Skynet and All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku?) but if interstellar clouds were a serious threat to the Earth, we'd be dead already.
It's interesting to know the Milky Way may be bigger than we thought but I question the judgment of a reporter who writes "mass, which is like weight."
Getting back to an older subject:
To paraphrase Calvin, it's not enough to want to colonize space. You have to want to colonize space for a reason good enough to attract massive levels of investment.
Wanting to ensure the survival of the human race is all well and good but it probably ranks below abstract knowledge as a fund-winner and we have a pretty good idea of the level of funding that attracts.
Will an event of a sort that logic tells us must have happened to the Solar system many many times in the past DOOM the EARTH?
Or will it just require more shielding on satellites? I know alarmism attracts eyeballs (I mean, why else would I be composing an article speculating that LJ will turn management of its computers over to a team composed of HAL, Skynet and All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku?) but if interstellar clouds were a serious threat to the Earth, we'd be dead already.
It's interesting to know the Milky Way may be bigger than we thought but I question the judgment of a reporter who writes "mass, which is like weight."
Getting back to an older subject:
To paraphrase Calvin, it's not enough to want to colonize space. You have to want to colonize space for a reason good enough to attract massive levels of investment.
Wanting to ensure the survival of the human race is all well and good but it probably ranks below abstract knowledge as a fund-winner and we have a pretty good idea of the level of funding that attracts.
