Extinction Level Event Scenario

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And reach out more intensely to my fallen away loved ones
 
Nelka said:
That isn’t how God has decided the world will end.
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Are you sure? In the Gospels, Jesus’ description of the end of the world has some similarity to a comet or asteroid impact. Maybe Jesus will ride in on an asteroid.
Matthew 24:29-31

Immediately after the tribulation of those days,

the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light,
and the stars will fall from the sky,
and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with a trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
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Not to worry, though:
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What do we do?
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Luke 21:28

But when these signs begin to happen, stand erect and raise your heads because your redemption is at hand.
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IWantGod said:
A comet has been spotted by Nasa. It’s large enough to cause an extinction level event. In other words its a planet killer.

We have 5 years before impact.

We at Catholic Answers have been tasked with dealing with this scenario.

We have all the worlds resources at our disposal.

What do we do?
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This might seem like a far-fetched hypothetical, but this is actually what will happen, by analogy.
  1. We are all going to die.
  2. The earth will not last forever.
What to do? Follow Jesus. Love one another as God has loved us.
 
That’s my first initial conclusion. But apparently a nuke would break it into smaller parts that would still bare a significant threat. I also would like to nuke the poles of mars in the hope that it would terraform the planet.
 
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Why does it take an extinction level event for people to work together?
 
I doubt any working together will ensue, more like get even before the end…sad, but ohhh too human.
 
Smaller pieces more likely to burn up on atmospheric entry than mountains…of course they may be radioactive…
 
The strange thing is working together is more pragmatically useful, even without moral considerations; but we don’t seem to get that… Nothing wrong with individualism and self interest, but i think there is an extreme individualism running rampant where we will only recognize the value of our brother or sister if there is something in it for us as individuals. In reality that kind of attitude is actually counter productive and we only seem to realize it when its most likely to late.

Look at how bloody the history of the human race is. That’s what its taken for us to arrive at where we are right now.

People say Christianity is becoming more and more irrelevant, but i think its more important and relevant now as it has ever been.

No where else do i find the worth and value that God bestows on us.
 
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Yeah i guess. depends on the size really. But i imagine that a nuclear bomb would be on the table. I wonder if there are any other options. Perhaps a way to steer it off course? Maybe using gravity?
 
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The whole idea of a nuke would be to throw it off course. It would not be an impact burst, but a near-burst. It would not break up the asteroid. At enough distance, it would not take much to throw it off impact course. All celestial bodies, like asteroids, pass through the influence of gravitational pulls from other celestial bodies, like stars and planets. We would just be nudging it a little more toward pulls that would take it further off impact course.
 
I wonder would that tactic work with a wondering rogue planet entering our solar system? I know that’s a bit extreme but it fascinate me and you seem to know ya stuff. Any ideas?
 
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It would not be an impact burst, but a near-burst.
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Yes, that would exert a force by the direct blast plus ablation (sudden evaporation) from the surface heated by the intense flash.
 
Rogue plant is probably too big to deflect.

How about a rogue brown dwarf? If such a thing collided with the sun, it would go nova and we’re done. (But even if it missed, it would disrupt our orbit and probably lead to our prompt extermination.)
 
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How far away from the Goldilocks zone would we have to be to ensure our demise?
 
Most likely a rogue brown dwarf would throw us into a more highly elliptical orbit, with more extreme seasons.

It might also drag some comets and asteroids out of their regular orbits and toward us.

But no worries. Did you think the earth would last forever?
 
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That’s what the moon is for.

It is effectively in freefall. Its orbit could be speeded up or slowed down with nuclear explosions so that the comet hits it rather than earth. Think of it as a pool ball. To minimise the impact force to keep the moon intact explosions could bring it close to earth so that it is travelling on the same trajectory as the comet. Counter explosions would push it back to the correct orbit post impact.

Moving the moon would affect tides so lower lying communities would need to be moved temporarily.
 
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The nearest rogue planet we know of is light years away and not moving toward the Earth.

Some conspiracy theorists say that there is a rogue planet called Nibiru, also known as Planet X, hanging out on the edges of our solar system and have predicted it crashing into the Earth and destroying all life at various times from 2015 up until this past Sept. 23. We’re still here.

NASA released a video this past month, explaining how this is completely preposterous and that if such a planet existed, there would be obvious signs that even amatuer astronomers could see and there aren’t any of those signs, not a single one. Conspiracy theorists have claimed they have seen the planet and photographed it, but competent scientists have asked for coordinates, so they can see for themselves, but have never gotten a good answer.

I would not worry about that one.
 
IWantGod said:
A comet has been spotted by Nasa. It’s large enough to cause an extinction level event. In other words its a planet killer.

We have 5 years before impact.

We at Catholic Answers have been tasked with dealing with this scenario.

We have all the worlds resources at our disposal.

What do we do?
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The world, Earth, is not supposed to end this way.
 
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