For those of you that have lost faith in our space program.

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Originally Posted by Dirtbag59

Well if theres any incentive to get the space program moving again its the asteroid headed for Earth in 2029 and then again in 2036 though the 2029 encounter is thought to pose a greater, albeit small, risk at this point. Apparently they would be able to alter it's trajectory by getting a probe to fly with it at a certain point allowing it to miss. I think if I heard right it'll be hard to miss when it hopefully just flies by.

Asteroid With Chance of Hitting Earth in 2029 Now Being Watched 'Very Carefully' | Space.com

You know I was also thinking about how if we want to continue surviving as a race we'll have to eventually leave Earth but it's not as simple as finding a planet with a similar atmosphere to Earth as well as water. I mean they've found other planets in the habital zone of other solar systems that probably have oxygen and liquid water but they're all different sizes which means less and more gravity then that of Earth.

Mars for example, even if we could start settlements there only has 38% the gravity of Earth. Astronomers have found a couple dozen Earth like planets but some of them like Gliese 581 d are approximately 5.6 times the size of Earth which means gravity wise....well I've heard numbers ranging from 1.1-1.7 that of Earths surface gravity to 4 times that of Earths gravity.

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This asteroid is called Apophis and it was discovered back in 2004. A good video of Neil DeGrasse Tyson talking about this in a speech sometime in 2008. Like most idiots, they generally don't care about their survival until it's on the brink of ending.