How to backup life on Earth ahead of any doomsday event
Jonathan Roberts
Director of the Australian Cobotics Centre, Technical Director at ARM Hub, Professor in Robotics at Queensland University of Technology, Adjunct Science Fellow at CSIRO Data61
There are ten asteroids that the space organisation NASA said this month have been been classified as “potentially hazardous” based on their size and their orbits in our Solar system.
Every year several previously unseen asteroids whizz past Earth, sometimes with only with a few days’ warning. This year two of these asteroids came very close to Earth, with one in May sailing past only 15,000km away. On cosmic scales, that was a very close shave.
But impacts from objects in space are just one of several ways that humanity and most of life on Earth could suddenly disappear.
The threats we face are so unpredictable that we need to have a backup plan. We need to plan for the time after our doomsday and think about how a post-apocalyptic Earth may recover and humanity will flourish again.
Read the full story in The Conversation.
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7 年Very interesting article!