NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Success

Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by jakear on Saturday January 14, 2023 @04:59PM (#34384563)

Life would continue on earth after an asteroid (see: history). The impact would only wipe out the most fragile species, such as humans.

The same holds for nuclear war: life would continue as it always has, species with poor nuclear hardening would be selected against.

The true extraterrestrialism absolutists ought to encourage nuclear winter and asteroid impacts; the life that makes it out the other end will be much better suited for space’s low light low nutrient high radiation environment.

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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by Waterluvian on Saturday January 14, 2023 @05:12PM (#34384647)

Nuclear disasters seem like a pretty solid way to create blooming nature preserves. Why don’t we do more of those?

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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by jakear on Saturday January 14, 2023 @09:10PM (#34386100)

We’ve collectively decided complex brittle flashy life is “better” than simple robust effective life.

We’ve made the same decision in software. To complicate is human.

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