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NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense (www.theregister.com)

submitted 6 months ago by boem to c/technology

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[–] Allonzee 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Covid kind of disillusioned me to the whole "all humanity needs is a common enemy/suffering to get right" concept.

[–] cm0002 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Iirc, it wasn't just that as far as Star Trek goes. Iirc, most world governments and economic systems were destroyed, humanity was a mere fraction of its peak population. Humanity literally physically came together because it was necessary to rebuild.

Its one thing to have a common enemy/suffering without changing anything else as far as governments and social systems goes. It's completely different when you not only have the enemy/suffering but to also need to literally rebuild everything from scratch

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The most horrifying possible outcome of a World War is, arguably, there being a definitive "winner".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

That's just not true. WWI had a definitive winner in Europe, but not in the Middle-East. And Turks are still killing people unpunished. And Germany wasn't a definitive loser, despite Entente countries making it really feel that role.

[–] grue 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Humanity literally physically came together because it was necessary to rebuild.

I'm pretty sure that didn't really happen until after the Vulcans showed up, TBH.

From Memory Alpha:

During the 2060s, Cochrane and his team of engineers began developing the warp drive. (Star Trek: First Contact) The challenge of inventing warp theory took Cochrane an extremely long time. (ENT: "Anomaly (ENT)") In 2061, he was responsible for Earth's first successful demonstration of light speed propulsion, though his work was far from complete. (VOY: "Friendship One"; ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II" library computer file) His primary motivation for commencing warp technology was financial gain in the devastated, poverty-stricken America that existed in the wake of the Third World War.

He finally built Earth's first warp ship, the Phoenix, in the hope its success would prove profitable and allow him to retire to a tropical island filled with naked women. A historical irony was that, contrary to the fact he went on to use the Phoenix to inaugurate an era of peace, Cochrane incorporated a weapon of mass destruction into its design; he constructed the Phoenix in a silo on a missile complex and used a Titan II missile as his launch vehicle.

(WWIII ended in 2053; First Contact was on 5 April 2063)

[–] cm0002 1 points 6 months ago

Ah yea it looks like I was forgetting large parts, either way I think it still reinforces my main point, we will probably go through a lot more pain and suffering before we can even come close to Star Treks timeline