OT: What is the biggest

[Renegade 13]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
There was a time when we had far more freedom to do as we wanted than we currently have now. You could go to the woods and camp, now you need a permit and you have to pack out your waste. (ALL WASTE! Yup, 1 & 2 are included).

I can see that happening in some popular camping places, but in general, I wouldn't want to go to a campsite that had many people visiting it. It seems to defeat the purpose of camping.

As the population increases, resources dwindle and freedom to be free is dramatically reduced. Hell at one point I bet many of you could simply walk out side at any hour and take a whiz, but to do that now you'd more than likely end up on some survalence video.

Lol, I still am free to step out wherever I want to on my property and do my business. But maybe that's because I live in the middle of nowhere....

Someone said the US isn't very overcrowded, and will likely be one of the Last places to become overcrowded. I agree with this, but I have to say that I think Canada will be the VERY Last place to become overcrowded. We have about 10% of the population of the US, and we're bigger

[Slick]

What about getting hit by a large asteroid? This could end all life. There is only a tiny amount of funding and effort being expended on looking for these things. And little or no effort going into planning what we would do if we found one on a collision course. We may not even be able to stop something like this, but the sooner we discover an asteroid on a collision course, the more time we have to react. The idea is we find out 30 or 50 years beforehand and then maybe we could deflect it. A those ranges, even a tiny change in its course would make it miss earth.

Slick.

[Intimidator]

Also I presume you would not want go into the woods and worry about someone shooting you because they think you're a deer. So hunting, IMO, should be highly regulated especially near crowded areas.

Never take a walk in the bush with some brushwood on your head......

[Intimidator]

Slick, You are right about your astroid BUT,

On this moment I think a bigger threat will be:
Terrorist with some nucleair bomb, Poetin going for dictatorship, overpopulation and the rest of all the stuff Atroc. mentioned.

Very smart to put all your money in building some huge Asteroid killer but maybe first clear things out at home.

[President Lomax]

Originally posted by Slick:
What about getting hit by a large asteroid? This could end all life. There is only a tiny amount of funding and effort being expended on looking for these things. And little or no effort going into planning what we would do if we found one on a collision course. We may not even be able to stop something like this, but the sooner we discover an asteroid on a collision course, the more time we have to react. The idea is we find out 30 or 50 years beforehand and then maybe we could deflect it. A those ranges, even a tiny change in its course would make it miss earth.

Slick.

yea i saw something on TV about that. I think it was the discovery channel or whatever, but it said that its not a question of IF we will get it, but WHEN. They said that earths gravitational pull will attract an asteroid sooner or later, and that if they do find out that there is somehting coming our way the will just shoot missiles at it to knockit off course.

[PvK]

Fortunately, developing an anti-asteroid system probably isn't going to prevent dealing with other problems at the same time. The course of action there is pretty clear - continue to research, develop, and deploy a solution. It's a risk, but the course of action is clear, and even looks like bozo politicians can be made to understand and agree to do it. "Oh, so I get to be seen by the voters as a movie-star-like person building a ray gun to save the Earth from destruction? Cool - where do I sign?"

Unfortunately, other problems (environmental and political) seem more certain, more urgent, and less easy to solve. Even with intellectual solutions, getting populations and corrupt/foolish/preoccupied governments to act on the solutions can be really hard. Gotta try though. Keep thinking and expressing intelligent opinions to other people, and to goverment and media.

PvK

[primitive]

The Asteroids hits about once every 100 Million Years.
That should give a 0.000004 % change (if I get my zeros right) for it to hit during the next electorial period (4 years in most countries). Good to know we still have politicians able to find more urgent use for our taxmoney