Really, I am not paranoid, but as I read the news and see all the ballyhoo made over relatively benign issues that face the earth, I have to ask—what about the human species?  We (earthlings) plan for, seemingly, everything else, but what about “us” in a few eons and beyond?

Let’s, look a this.  How many species killing scenarios are there to choose from?  It’s not hard to find enough of them to fill a volume of encyclopedias.  We’ve got plagues, volcanoes, sunamis, asteroids, cosmic rays, etc., you name it.—we’ve got it.  For instance, there is the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxy collision—estimated contact: 2-5  billion years, plus or minus. There is a good chance that our sun won’t collide with any of Andromeda suns, but do you bet the species on that?  Maybe we don’t need to worry about galaxies colliding as the sun is going to burn out in 5 billion years anyways.  I am not so much talking about the calamities that might happen; for god sakes, I am talking about the ones we know are going to happen.

Let’s get closer to home now.  On February 1, 2019, a two kilometer wide asteroid (2002 NT7) might hit the earth. Is this the same as, it might rain today?  If there is a 1% chance of rain, my hair might get wet.  If the asteroid hits it might destroy a continent and drive the into earth to a deep ice age. Even with Yellowstone’s recent heightened activity—it seems that the people of the planet are blowing it off (no pun intended). Scientists know that the Yellowstone caldera blows up every 600,000 years or so, and we are estimated to be about 640,000 years into the next cycle.  There are various assumptions about the resulting aftermath of this eruption,  everything from 2/3 of North America becoming an ash strewn wasteland to the planet going into extreme cooling with little sunlight for growing food (i.e. global starvation).  Project managers—what are you doing to deal with this?

I think we know that the “important” people of the earth will be taken care of ,at least for a while, but what about the masses?  It seems to me that the governments of the earth are being a little irresponsible here!  We know that bad things are coming—not might be coming!  Nevertheless,  we get all discombobulated over oil prices and whether or not we have global warming.  Global warming over global destruction….hmmmmm.

So what are we doing to prepare?  I don’t know.  Maybe we should be looking into things like: 

• Living under the sea. We came from the sea anyways—we might need to return there.  The sea takes a long time to cool, even if the surface of the earth becomes a frozen wasteland—plus there are tons of geothermal vents in the ocean and food to be harvested.
• Living underground. Scientists belive that many mammal species survived living underground in past Asteroid hits that darkened the earth—maybe we could too.
• Build an orbiting, Battlestar Galactica type, armada above the earth.  Why not—we have made a lot of advances in harvesting food in hydroponics fams.  Orbits are fairly easy to sustain for decades if need be.  
• Become the aliens to other, life sustaining, planets that some think we are currently being visited by.  Who’s to say that by the time we crash into Andromeda that earthlings won’t look like the Greys already?

 

The bottom line is that the world needs to start paying it forward.  There will won’t be an available After Action Review on this one. Well, that’s it for my ranting. Seriously though—-irresponsible people!