re: Comet 67P (Rosetta flew behind his one) compared to Los Angeles

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So it is likely there is other intelligent life out there.

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I have not seen more intelligent life walking across the quad.

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Longer term MO will be to control space and defend against other countries and extraterrestrial threats.

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There will be no extraterrestrial threats to guard against and out government shouldn’t be wasting money to guard against it. The closest there might be is if we discover microbes on Mars or something, bring them back to Earth, and then our bodies can’t defend against it so there’s a pandemic.

There won’t be spaceships zipping around with lasers either. At most some sort of unmanned orbital weapons delivery systems. Every explosion or wrecked satellite causes significant long term problems for development of space. NASA spoke up about India’s destruction of a satellite making the statement that its wholly unsustainable because of the debris it creates.

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There already is one and I've met a guy who works for it.

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Tony Stark or Clark Kent?

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Or we don't have the right resources.

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I would imagine water would be pretty high on the needed resources list since it's seems to be so scarce. But in general all resources would be sought after if your were traveling across the universe wouldn't you think?

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What was that rock a harvard scientist said was from an alien culture?

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You are thinking of the Obamastone It is dick shaped

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If you know something is going to hit in ten years you can react. If you know something is going to hit in ten months you can react but it’s harder. If ten days, oh well.

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So this thread has spurred talk of the Space Force, asteroids, extraterrestrial life and light years. So if humans save their azzes by deflecting one object, that's great. But a philosophical question: In saving ourselves from these threats, what is your vision of how long humans are going to continue on this planet. Are you thinking 250 years, 2000 years or 2,000,000 years. Man it all changes over time so I doubt humans can be saved in the long run. It's foolish to think we have some sort of control on that. Sorry, that's just how it is. The earth is not here because of humans. We are here because of the earth.

To project what’s in the future, we have to look at the past. The human past includes approximately 4.1 billion years of evolution. Over that period we have evolved from the simplest life form to the most advanced.

We have reached the limits of biological evolution. Humans cannot migrate from earth in our current form. We have colonized the entire planet because we can reshape the environment to suit our needs. We can’t do that in space.

However, the evolutionary gift that has caused us to completely dominate earth will also send our offspring into the Universe. Not our biological offspring, though. Rather, it will be the artificial intelligence we create that will represent us.

We’re already launching rudimentary AI into our solar system on discovery missions. Soon AI will be so advanced that it will design itself for interstellar travel. We will, in effect, create our successor species that will explore the Universe.

Again looking to the past, we can see a slow transition that took 3 billion years for single cell organisms to evolve into multicellular creatures. Then it took hundreds of millions of years for a technological intelligence to evolve, humans.

Now, some three hundred thousand years later, our technological abilities are creating AI. From an objective viewpoint, this is a natural progression of evolution. Biological life is becoming metalogical life, or what we now call artificial intelligence. Only metalogical life can traverse space’s great distances between worlds to continue the spread of intelligence in the Universe.