Reply to post: Re: Impacts are not always bad

NASA boffins seem to think we're worth saving from fiery asteroid death so they're shooting a spaceship at one

Unicornpiss

Re: Impacts are not always bad

"..and could have the effect of making every nation start to work together to create a better and safer world for the entire human race"

While the nearly dead idealistic part of me would hope that would occur, what would likely happen is the survivors would squabble over the remaining habitable zones and resources, up to and including using nuclear weapons and making the planet even less habitable. Even an event that should be survivable could easily be an extinction-level event with our current attitudes, and would at the very least likely set us back 100+ years as a species.

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