The difference, of course, is that this federally-funded project will place two gay men on the ark to meet its diversity quota.
NASA has reviewed options that range from building titanic space tugboats to nudge asteroids off a collision course with Earth to crashing “kinectic impactors” into an oncoming comet.
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may not work as most asteroids are apparently flying rock piles held together by gravity and/or ice.
I certainly believe we have done this several times over.
I think the Bhagavata Purana and some of the other Sanskrit scriptures make this likely, blam. In the Hebrew Scriptures it is written in Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes 1:9) “That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun.” I have taken that particular Hebrew writing as a touchstone for interpreting the world and the myth of progress as currently embraced.
Hexgon on Saturn: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807602/posts
Saturn Rings Have Atmosphere: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1869570/posts
DNA Shaped Dust In Saturn's Rings?: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879563/posts
About the only technology we will need for a while is how to make more humans to replace those left behind. We've pretty much perfected that process and it does NOT include two astronauts named Adam & Steve!
Actually, we need three arks.
On the first ark (the ‘A’ ark), we can put all the adventurers, heroes, and builders of society.
The second ark (the ‘B’ ark) can contain the various middle men; the telephone sanitizers, salesmen, fashion consultants, etc.
On the third ark (the ‘C’ ark), we can put all the scientists, engineers, and thinkers that make society go.
Then we just need to make certain the ‘B’ ark is sent first so that everything will be ready when the other two arks arrive.
Catastrophism Ping.
In a matter of weeks, sufficient improvements
for a dwelling space could be provided.
PRESIDENT MUFFLEY
But they couldn’t come out for a hundred
years!
VON KLUTZ
(smiling wisely)
Mister President, man is an amazingly adaptable
creature. After all, the conditions would be
far superior to those, say, of the Nazi concentration
camps, where there is ample evidence most of the
wretched creatures clung desperately to life.
Although the PRESIDENT seems unconvinced, looking around the
room, it is apparent VON KLUTZ’s proposal has not fallen upon
deaf ears.
VON KLUTZ
(smiling modestly)
It would not be difficult. Nuclear reactors
could provide power almost indefinitely.
Greenhouses could maintain plant life.
Animals could be bred and slaughtered.
A quick survey would have to be made of all
the suitable minesites in the country, but
I shouldn’t be surprised if several hundred
thousand of our people could be accomodatedd.
Every nation would undoubtedly follow suit.
PRESIDENT MUFFLEY
But who would be chosen?
VON KLUTZ
A special committee would have to be appointed
to study and recommend the criteria to be
employed, but off-hand, I should say that in
addition to the factors of youth, health, sexual
fertility, intelligence, and a cross-section of
necessary skills, it would be absolutely vital
that our top government and military men be
included, to impart the required principles of
leadership and tradition.
The arrow has not missed its mark, and there is an outbreak of
sober, nodding heads.
VON KLUTZ
(laughs, distastefully)
Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh?
There would be much time and little to do.
With the proper breeding techniques, and starting
with a ratio of, say, ten women to each man,
I should estimate the progeny of the original
group of 200,000 would emerge a hundred years
later as well over a hundred million. Naturally
the group would have to continually engage in
enlarging the original living space.
Much serious judgment is brought to bear around the table. Pencils
are brought into action.
VON KLUTZ
When they emerge, a good deal of present real
estate and machine tools will still be recoverable,
if they are moth-balled in advance. I would guess
they could then work their way back to our present
gross national product within twenty years.
PRESIDENT MUFFLEY
But, look here, Von Klutz. Won’t this nucleus
of survivors be so shocked, grief-stricken, and
anguished that they will envy the dead, and indeed,
not wish to go on living?
VON KLUTZ
Certainly not, sir. When they go down into the
mine, everyone else will still be alive. They will
have no shocking memories, and the prevailing
emotion should be one of a nostalgia for those
VON KLUTZ (Cont)
left behind, combined with a spirit of bold
curiousity for the adventure ahead.
GENERAL SCHMUCK
(judiciously)
You mentioned the ratio of ten women to each
man. Wouldn’t that necessitate abandoning the
so-called monogamous form of sexual relation-
ship?
VON KLUTZ
Regrettably, yes. But it is a sacrifice required
for the future of the human race. I hasten to
add that since each man will be required to
perform prodigious service along these lines,
the women will have to be selected for their
sexual characteristics, which will have to be
of a highly stimulating order.
AMBASSADOR DE SADE
(enthusiastically)
Von Klutz, I must confess you have an astonish-
ingly good idea there.
Imagine what we could have done if it wasn't for these murdering scum.
Anything that is going to impact the earth to that degree has a pretty good chance of causing serious collateral damage to the Moon as well.
I say further - like Alpha Centauri.