[extropy-chat] Re:katrina opportunity

[giorgio gaviraghi]

wwe are all living in dangerous areas planet Earth
an asteroid impact, which can happen at anytime can
destry our civilization
if only the expected 2029 close call deflects slightly
from its trajectory we are doomed
I don't see anything been done about that
we have enough early warning to prepare a deflection
or destruction system for such asteroid in case
something gets out of control but nothing is been done
--- Damien Sullivan <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> ha
scritto: 

> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 02:30:07PM +0200, giorgio
> gaviraghi wrote:
> > the recent new orleans disaster must be considered
> as
> > an alrm bell of things to come during this
> century.
> > natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes,
> > tsunamis, earthquakes, mudslides , fires, and
> others
> > re becoming more frequent nd more dsmaging.
> 
> I've read this is more because more people are
> moving to disaster prone areas
> such as California and Florida and Seattle.
> 
>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050905/ap_on_sc/katrina_unsafe_planet
> 
>    In the 1970s, only 11 percent of earthquakes
> affected human settlements,
>    researchers at Belgium's University of Louvain
> report. That soared to 31
>    percent in 1993-2003, including a quake in 2003
> that killed 26,000 people
>    in Iran, whose population has doubled since the
> '70s.
> 
>    The expanding U.S. population "has migrated to
> hazard-prone areas -- to
>    Florida, the Atlantic and Gulf coasts,
> particularly barrier islands, to
>    California," noted retired U.S. government
> seismologist Robert M.
>    Hamilton, a disaster-prevention specialist.
> "Several decades ago we didn't
>    have wall-to-wall houses down the coast as we do
> now."
> 
> -xx- Damien X-) 
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