Re: Robotic Asteroid Flyby Scanning Technology - What EquipmentCouldBe Used?

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> > On Feb 21, 7:21=A0pm, " snipped-for-privacy@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz"
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> > > >> >> > > >> >> Dear Brad Guth:
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> > > >> >> ...
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> > > >> >> > > > > >dlzcwrote:
> > > >> >> > > > > > > I suspect it has more to do with interest in panspe=

rmia,

> > >> >> > > > > > > and the religious implications of finding interesti=

ng life

> > >> >> > > > > > > that developed "separate" from ours.
> > > >> >> ...
> > > >> >> > The odds of those many other Eden/Goldilocks worthy
> > > >> >> > planets not having some level(s) of complex life is
> > > >> >> > extremely remote. =A0Just because we can't see it, hear it,
> > > >> >> > smell it or eat it, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, or
> > > >> >> > that it's any less intelligent than we are.
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> > > >> >> We have a big problem with anaerobic bacteria now. =A0It doesn'=

t have to

> > >> >> be intelligent to warrant our respect, and our concern.
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> > > >> >> > Personally, I'd be very surprised if there was any form
> > > >> >> > of intelligent off-world life that was as pathetic and
> > > >> >> > dysfunctional as us.
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> > > >> >> All intelligence must start out that way. =A0Intelligence must =

first

> > >> >> serve to increase entropy. =A0Later maybe it will learn to be c=

ogent and

> > >> >> harmonious.
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> > > >> >> > Remember, you don't need the expertise nor
> > > >> >> > whatever science of microwave communications,
> > > >> >> > much less space travel capability, in order to far
> > > >> >> > surpass the intelligence and quality of life as desired
> > > >> >> > by us humans.
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> > > >> >> You are intentionally hard on the child-race we belong to. =A0I=

f we

> > >> >> survive the coming years, we might get better.
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> > > >> >> And we've gotten far afield of where the OP started... =A0Sorry=

> > > >> >> David A. Smith
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> > > >> >We've had 12,000 plus years and more than a dozen valid do-overs =

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> > >> >is. =A0All that I can figure out is that we've lost most of the r=

eally

> > >> >nifty genetic codes for survial, and we've gone from bad to worse=

in a

> > >> >relatively short period of time. =A0We are unprepared, because a =

simple

> > >> >pandemic can wipe most of us out, or an asteroid encounter can
> > > >> >terminate all of us. =A0The one species of complex life on Earth =

that

> > >> >this world and its frail environment could manage to self regulat=

e a

> > >> >whole lot better without, is us humans.
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> > > >> What sort of "nifty genetic codes for survival" would protect agai=

nst

> > >> asteroids? =A0How many asteroids were there 12,000 years ago?
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> > > >The alligator has a lot of survival capability that we've lost
> > > >somewhere along the evolutionary road. =A0Many species of complex li=

fe

> > >on Earth have terrific survival intelligence and highly beneficial
> > > >physiological attributes that we could still use.
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> > > I didn't know 'gators were immune to asteroids, either.
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> > > >When this planet was sucker-punched by a glancing blow from an icy
> > > >7.4e22 kg asteroid/planetoid, it caused a seasonal tilt and created
> > > >the Arctic ocean basin. =A0Most naked humans didn't survive, althoug=

> > >most ants and a high enough percentage of alligators probably did.
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> > > Wow! =A0All that, 12,000 years ago...
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> > You didn't get it, but then your species is doomed anyway.
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> > How did humans manage to lose so much of our original DNA code?
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> If we are to save ourselves from impending doom, do our orbiting space
> telescopes have a specific observation program for detecting the
> closest G2V stars first, followed by those further out? It would seem
> that most of the closer stars have already been categorized by earth
> telescopes, so whose business is it to keep observers purposely in the
> dark about our closest, neighboring G2V star systems?

Actually, most any old red dwarf would do just fine, although most of those are too far away.

Earth has more than enough thorium to get us by without a sun.

Surviving a worse case encounter while inside of our moon is actually our best bet.