Atlantis

[blackdevil0742]

The space shuttle NASA just sent up hasn't blown up into a million pieces yet.

Three cheers!

You said it. It hasn't blown up yet. The news in the swedish Aftonbladet said that there's a hole/crack in the shuttle.
IMG: http://img.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/0706/10/hal31.jpg

[Captain Ben]

pfffff do know how long it would take to even consider making a plant hospitable for human life
try 300 years just to get some sort of 'atmosphere' and even then humans won't be living on a terraformed planet for like another 1000 years
we're pretty ****ed anyway

It's not that Ben, we could easily construct biodomes on the planet first and then work on stabilizing the atmosphere. The real problem is moving all these billions of people off the planet in such a short space of time. It's like an hourglass, but filled tiny little annoying greasebags that dont like change.

But still, yes, moving to a new planet is not as easy as it sounds.

biodomes wouldn't do jakc unless they were for colonies and you wouldn't even be able to cram billions into them
you'd have to do the whole damn planet and even if you're in a biosphere you would have to maintain that as well as building an atmosphere on the planet WHICH WOULD TAKE FOREVERRRRRRr

[Dascoo]

pfffff do know how long it would take to even consider making a plant hospitable for human life
try 300 years just to get some sort of 'atmosphere' and even then humans won't be living on a terraformed planet for like another 1000 years
we're pretty ****ed anyway

It's not that Ben, we could easily construct biodomes on the planet first and then work on stabilizing the atmosphere. The real problem is moving all these billions of people off the planet in such a short space of time. It's like an hourglass, but filled tiny little annoying greasebags that dont like change.

But still, yes, moving to a new planet is not as easy as it sounds.

You wouldn't need to move billions of people, only a few thousand. Still that's alot....And I was also thinking biodomes, terraforming would take hundreds of thousands of years.

Oyeah, O'niel cylinders.

[Captain Ben]

why would you only move a few thousand that's pretty tight

[Dascoo]

why would you only move a few thousand that's pretty tight

Because why would we need to migrate every single person offworld? If an asteroid destroys all human life on Earth, then atleast we'll have a few thousand not on Earth who can reproduce and re populate the Earth in the future. Just self-sustainable colonies on the Moon, or Mars, or just bring some Asteroids and populate those... Turn em into colonies.

[Mistercharles]

The space shuttle NASA just sent up hasn't blown up into a million pieces yet.

Three cheers!

You said it. It hasn't blown up yet. The news in the swedish Aftonbladet said that there's a hole/crack in the shuttle.
IMG: http://img.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/0706/10/hal31.jpg

Go figure.

Why is it that this keeps happening? The shuttles in the 1960s didn't run into this problem.

[Smegma]

pfffff do know how long it would take to even consider making a plant hospitable for human life
try 300 years just to get some sort of 'atmosphere' and even then humans won't be living on a terraformed planet for like another 1000 years
we're pretty ****ed anyway

It's not that Ben, we could easily construct biodomes on the planet first and then work on stabilizing the atmosphere. The real problem is moving all these billions of people off the planet in such a short space of time. It's like an hourglass, but filled tiny little annoying greasebags that dont like change.

But still, yes, moving to a new planet is not as easy as it sounds.

biodomes wouldn't do jakc unless they were for colonies and you wouldn't even be able to cram billions into them
you'd have to do the whole damn planet and even if you're in a biosphere you would have to maintain that as well as building an atmosphere on the planet WHICH WOULD TAKE FOREVERRRRRRr

Pauly Shore lied?!!

[Blue-ninja]

Building an atmosphere on a planet that supports no life? Hard. Unless you bring about a ton of plants and trees to make oxygen from carbon dioxide-filled planets, then contain them inside a biodome. As long as no one chops down a tree, there'll be plenty of oxygen for everybody.

EDIT: Wait....what?

[blackdevil0742]

The space shuttle NASA just sent up hasn't blown up into a million pieces yet.

Three cheers!

You said it. It hasn't blown up yet. The news in the swedish Aftonbladet said that there's a hole/crack in the shuttle.
IMG: http://img.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/0706/10/hal31.jpg

Go figure.

Why is it that this keeps happening? The shuttles in the 1960s didn't run into this problem.

Do you know why? Because they never sent any shuttles in to space back then it is all FAKE! (joke)

[SirJamesaford]

Nasa just found a planet that they say COULD support life.  Its atmosphere seems right, the size is right and its just close enough to a sun... Its only 20.5 lightyears away.  Now i know your thinking that nothing can travel through space faster than the speed of light but that wont stop us from doing it.... in fact there are several theories around that already.  A few hundred years from now we'll be on our way.

[Blue-ninja]

Nasa just found a planet that they say COULD support life. Its atmosphere seems right, the size is right and its just close enough to a sun... Its only 20.5 lightyears away. Now i know your thinking that nothing can travel through space faster than the speed of light but that wont stop us from doing it.... in fact there are several theories around that already. A few hundred years from now we'll be on our way.

hopefully before the overpopulation problem bites us in the ass. Hard.

[Dascoo]

Why is it that this keeps happening? The shuttles in the 1960s didn't run into this problem.

There were no Shuttles in the 60's and they didn't have so many problems because they were new.

Building an atmosphere on a planet that supports no life? Hard. Unless you bring about a ton of plants and trees to make oxygen from carbon dioxide-filled planets, then contain them inside a biodome. As long as no one chops down a tree, there'll be plenty of oxygen for everybody.

EDIT: Wait....what?

Supplying oxygen wouldn't be a big problem, making a self sustaining enviroment wouldn't be such a problem actually....but then bacteria builds up in an isolated enviroment. They could connect multiple domes to eachother and share eachothers atmosphere.

[Blue-ninja]

I don't think that plants need oxygen, they make oxygen by transforming carbon dioxide into oxygen.

I read somewhere that the past atmosphere had very little oxygen, until the first plants appeared and now makes up 11% of oxygen in the atmosphere. Science book, actually.

So, a abundant supply of carbon dioxide in the new planet's atmosphere is more than enough to make the plants' day.

[PANZERCATWAGON]

Because why would we need to migrate every single person offworld? If an asteroid destroys all human life on Earth, then atleast we'll have a few thousand not on Earth who can reproduce and re populate the Earth in the future. Just self-sustainable colonies on the Moon, or Mars, or just bring some Asteroids and populate those... Turn em into colonies.

Hahaha, just imagine the fight there would be to get on one of those shuttles, people would never let that happen.

[CriminalJoe]

wow, on some real junk, i gotta start watching the news

[Dascoo]

Because why would we need to migrate every single person offworld? If an asteroid destroys all human life on Earth, then atleast we'll have a few thousand not on Earth who can reproduce and re populate the Earth in the future. Just self-sustainable colonies on the Moon, or Mars, or just bring some Asteroids and populate those... Turn em into colonies.

Hahaha, just imagine the fight there would be to get on one of those shuttles, people would never let that happen.

I'm not suggersting the migration wouldn't happen just a couple of days before the impact. There'd be colonies established for scientific purposes....just saying, these colonies could be used to re populate the earth after a major impact.

 

[Captain Ben]

how about you just... stop the impact

[Dascoo]

how about you just... stop the impact

Well you'd think they'd have a delivery system.....but then again, how do you stop an asteroid hundreds of kilometres across? You can detonate a few nukes, but that'll probably just break it into smaller objects which are still deadly. 

[Captain Ben]

haven't you seen armageddon???
you just need to do it early enough for the pieces to separate enough so they they'd miss earth

we already have a big rock heading towards earth... but its like 830 years away or something

[PANZERCATWAGON]

haven't you seen armageddon???
you just need to do it early enough for the pieces to separate enough so they they'd miss earth

we already have a big rock heading towards earth... but its like 830 years away or something

If the asteroid comes from behind the sun we can't see it. I don't know why but I remember that piece of information I got taught about how asteroids might one day destroy us all got stuck in my head.

Basically they just fly too fast. Plus that was just a film so it's not really scientifically accurate.