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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Selling $1B a Year in Amazon Stock to Finan... by rhino369 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:24AM (#14050762)
>are all for naught when that asteroid hits.

Hiding in space from an asteroid strike is a bad plan. Earth during an impact winter is still much much more habitable than anywhere else in the solar system.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Selling $1B a Year in Amazon Stock to Finan... by sqeaky on Thursday April 06, 2017 @03:15PM (#14053645)
I think you are approaching the problem the wrong way. If we are in space we can prevent the strike entirely.
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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Selling $1B a Year in Amazon Stock to Finan... by rhino369 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @03:23PM (#14053734)
Good point.
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