Nuclear War is something completely man made so of course i wasn't counting that (kind of like AI singularity many worry about or global warming), and gamma ray bursts, as i understood it, we should be relatively safe for several million years, given our stellar neighbourhood.
I'm not sure if there's anything at all to be done against solar bursts though, yeah.
I know there are ways to deflect meteorites, if detected early enough, and there are clearly ways to prevent against pandemics.
And of course if yellowsotne does pop, not much you can do about that either, i guess.
GRBs are entirely unpredictable, but very rare to effect earth. Historically, one ancient mass extinction was theorized to potentially be GRB-related but unprovable.
Meteor deflection would be entirely new ground though, no past experience to apply to it.
Yeah, why i think it would at least be reasonable to keep a good space program going regardless of people thinking "what's it for?".
I mean in the Venn diagram of natural disaster that can kill us (near)all and things we can try and do something about, the list doesn't seem that massive.
But then again, you can argue pandemics are also man made, if you consider them to be a by-product of our social structure growing faster than our ability to control it.
It's hard to have pandemics as hunter/gatherers.
btw how are you doing in Italy, I've been avoiding reading any news today
Aside from the dead piling up (especially north) which is normal since the peak wasn't expected for another week at least, i guess people are just worried about the supply line starting to show some holes.
Personally a week back i stocked up enough to last me to around April 3rd, so i haven't had a reason to go shopping again, yet.
I'm personally "curious" to see how people will take it once they extend the lockdown part March and April.
