Can something be done about future asteroid collisions with earth? Yes it can. Will stocking up food help when this does happen? Yes, it is very unlikely that such a collision would wipe us all out at once, but without preperation we will surely die off. Will the earth outlive us? According to history, probably, but the earth itself cannot last forever nor can our solar system, our gallaxy or the universe itself.

Some folks clearly "don't give a rats ass" about the future world of our children, thank god NASA is ahead of the call, not that people won't stop taking our world for granted, but there is hope;^]

Ahhh, thought it might be one of those movies that deflects a NEO with missles, missles definatly wouldn't work. I'll have to check it out sometime;^]

Haven't seen that movie;^]

NASAs NEO program;^]

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/

Luckily the sattelite isn't big enough to trigger a mass extinction, but NEO's are a major threat with the really big ones. It's a bit disheartening but a reality, that asteroid impact isn't a matter of if but when & how big will it be.

I can't believe how naive some folks are about these things, like the teenager who thinks he'll live forever. Not that one should worry about it constantly but they should be aware, it can't last forever. Remember what living only in the now got Janis Joplin? If we don't plan for our futures we don't stand a chance;^]

Especialy if you're looking the other way.

However, that's a low odd scenerio, asteroid collision with earth is a high odd scenerio. Google "near earth objects NASA" & you'll get a list of info directly from NASA;^]

I think Edwards is going to be Obamas running mate. I'd like to see Nader as attorney general and Biden as sec. state, right men for the job;^]

Good thing the good folks at NASA don't think that way, not knowing how to deflect an asteroid would be pretty dissasterous when it's within close range, The odds of us getting hit are actualy against us. It wiped out the dinosaurs & it could easily wipe us out. Living only for today is a recipe for extinction, planning for the future is neccesary if our species is to survive such a dissaster;^]

Agreed, but I think Mccain is just playing the game. TR did it too;^]

It's already came & passed, brother, so what ya gonna do, brother, NWO 4 LIFE!!!;^]

http://slam.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingPPV/feb18_nowayout-can.html

hehe, we might want to get old Ben Frank. off the hundred;^]

http://kulasd.tripod.com/nwo.jpg

Only theories? They're certainly not hypothisis, they've been measured and shown to be accurate, the earths core cannot burn eternaly, neither can our sun (we've been observing the life and death of stars for quite some time now). We can see Andramida coming torwards us, combined with the fact that we've observed merger gallaxies and that eventualy the super massive black holes in the center of both gallaxies will merge and eventualy swallow up most if not all matter within, and we've got an inevitable end to our species, our planet and all of life as we know it. The universe will in fact end in a big crunch, we measure the expansion of it & we know that eventual retraction has to happen.

All of these things however, are billions if not trillions of years away. The most present danger is debated as being earth bound asteroids or climate change (not concerning nuclear warfare). Stephen Hawking seems to think climate change is the most important crisis we've ever faced, He also supports the terraforming & colonisation of mars. But earth bound asteroids we have some 200 in our sight, but those aren't the dangerous ones, the dangerous ones are the ones we know are there yet can't see. No hypothisis here, this is true astro science;^]

Excuse me? You might wanna go back & reread my posts, I haven't tried to predict "when" and in fact I said noone will know when. Every thing I've said is accurate, and agreed upon in the scientific community, the earth nor the universe will last forever. I'm not fearmongering, these things are true, I'm keeping it real, turn a blind eye to a fist flying at you & you get knocked out, all a matter of reason & physics. I'm sorry that you don't care enough to want to deflect an asteroid or to plan for an exodus from earth if dissaster strikes, but more than that I'm sorry you feel you need to resort to your negative speaking. I won't bother responding if you can't be civil, I'm not getting sucked into that cynicism again;^]

Plenty of people care, who cares that you don't? Personaly, I'll continue to care about the planet, people other than myself, and more importantly future generations. The world is bigger than me & science holds the key;^]

I'm not one of those "the end is near" people, but to ignore the fact that the earth can and will end is to doom the planet to certain death. They are working on ways to deflect earth bound asteroids and such, so we may be able to buy more time. But it's only knowladge to carry the fact that it can't last forever. 2012? I doubt it, if we can avoid an asteroid impact we might make it a few billion years unless climate change recreates a permian extinction situation;^]

Energy may not end, but the earth and the universe will. Eventualy the earths core will burn out, eventualy the sun will die, eventualy our milky way gallaxy will collide with the andramida gallaxy, and even further down the universe will end in what is called the big crunch. Other scenerios are possible too, a black hole could drift too close, a huge asteroid could destroy the planet, the earth has come close to ending already several times. Neither the earth nor the universe will last forever;^]

I got some friends who do that, yet they wonder why people don't take their political opinions seriously..lol;^]

Naw, there's actualy a lot of good shows on right now in my humble. Reno 911, Daily Show/ Colbert Report, The Wire (5 stars on The Wire), The Universe, Cosmos, Bill Maher, Family Guy, American Dad, Simpsons, and don't let me forget my wrestling Raw, ECW, Impact & Smackdown..lol;^]

True that, but you can bet that the 40% who don't will still b*tch about the government..lol;^]