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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by revscat on Friday October 31, 2014 @04:07PM (#8540848)
While true, it is also not as direct of a threat. CO2 is affecting us now, whereas asteroids, etc., are (thankfully) only possibilities. Serious ones, to be certain, but not immediately threatening.

CO2 is a direct and immediate threat.

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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by ceejayoz on Friday October 31, 2014 @04:48PM (#8541050)
Humans as a species will survive CO2, though, whereas asteroids conceivably can go from "not immediately threatening" to "Earth will be destroyed in a few years" without warning.
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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by mhurron on Friday October 31, 2014 @05:04PM (#8541126)
> not immediately threatening" to "Earth will be destroyed in a few years" without warning.

Unless the lead time is 50-100 years, years might as well be tomorrow, it's going to kill us all either way. Even that might be stretching it.

> Humans as a species will survive CO2

Maybe, personally I believe humans will cause their own extinction. I'm just not sure yet if we're going to take all life with us or not. Dealing with CO2 is a toss up between making the planet uninhabitable or completely inhospitable to life.

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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by waterlesscloud on Friday October 31, 2014 @05:53PM (#8541293)
What study has indicated CO2 might make the planet completely inhospitable to life?
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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by JoeAltmaier on Friday October 31, 2014 @04:48PM (#8541052)
"... few days"
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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by ceejayoz on Friday October 31, 2014 @04:54PM (#8541081)
I went with years there to be safe as I'm uncertain about what the detection levels are like for planet-killer sized asteroids. I know we discover house-sized ones passing between us and the Moon after they whiz by.
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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by JoeAltmaier on Friday October 31, 2014 @05:04PM (#8541125)
No detection. Who's looking? Many are found by amateurs, as you say, after they whiz by.
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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by seanflyon on Friday October 31, 2014 @07:48PM (#8541653)
CO2 is a very real threat and we should be doing more about it. That said, the threat is neither direct nor immediate.
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