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Here's what the overstated NEO threat is
Robt Clements — (archived)

Please stop repackaging these von Danieken rewrites of biblical history as though they were real history - Benny Peiser might consider this guff scientific; but noone else does. Almost all of those claims have alternative explanations - including the Australian tsunami; which is more likely to have been caused by simple ocean techtonics rather than an impact - so you're left with a small handful of factual Tunguska-class real impacts & a lot of near misses; as anyone who built their case on the mechanics of asteroid impact rather than literary allusion would tell you.

To repeat: there is no evidence to support the theory that the NEO impactor threat is realistic to a technological society in terms less than centuries; & unless we suddenly come up with ways of colonising the oceans as well as the desert, that kind of time frame could easily extend into millenia. This is not an assessment which allows you to ignore the impactor threat; but which explains why everyone bar yourself considers that your Zubrinesque plan for spending huge amounts of money on the Moon - however scientifically the real case is for such a platform - is considered a tad irrelevant.

Robert

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