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how many? Will I.T. survive?

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Several posters here touched on three different ideas: building a modern “ark,” asteroid impacts, and severe solar/space weather. Contributors such as , , , and mixed practical concerns with humour. Below are concise, evidence-based corrections and realistic alternatives to a literal ark.

Asteroid impacts are taken seriously by scientists because detection and early action are the real defenses. Objects that cause only local destruction are much more common than ones that can produce global extinction. Detection and tracking are active programs run by NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office and JPL’s CNEOS, and impact‑energy calculators illustrate how mass and orbital speed control destructive power (see NASA PDCO and the JPL CNEOS resources).
(https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/)
(https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/)

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections affect electronics, satellites and electricity grids by injecting energetic particles and currents into the magnetosphere and upper atmosphere. They do not “transfer heat to the core” or directly raise global temperatures. Historical context and modern monitoring come from NOAA/NASA space‑weather services; the 1859 Carrington event is the commonly cited worst case for infrastructure disruption.
(https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/carrington-event)

Building one giant boat is mostly symbolic. Practical preservation already exists in multiple forms: seed vaults and genetic archives for biodiversity, cryobanks for germplasm, distributed and air‑gapped digital backups for knowledge, and planetary‑defense programs for physical protection. Examples include the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and coordinated efforts to detect and, if needed, deflect hazardous asteroids.
(https://www.seedvault.no/)
(https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart)

Bottom line: the science community focuses on detection, redundancy and specialized storage rather than a single ark. For long‑term resilience those are the scalable, verifiable strategies.

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Member Avatar for mikulucky

Well if you go with the noah idea, that the 1 ark was able to 2 two of every animal on the planet. We would only need one to fit all of humanity. As there is current around 8.7 million species of animals. Multiply that by two, thats 19.4 million animals. However to allow for the size differences such as insects and so on, I would say a save bet would be 3 arks, for the humans. All other animals DNA and plant matter is secure in vaults which can be retrieved later, no point building more arks for them.

However this is just an estimate :D

Member Avatar for Ancient Dragon

There will be no arks since its the end of the world. The end will come due to our sun exploding or collision with an asteroid, not because of a flood.

Member Avatar for zeroliken

Will I.T. survive?

If most of the people in this forum survives it will ;)

Member Avatar for Karlwakim

I think that if the end is really coming, nobody will survive.
First, the heat will kill anybody even those underground, and if for any reason somebody survived, the dust cloud will stop the sun from heating us, so will die from cold.
At least, that's what i think will happen.
The best chance of survival is to quit the earth forever but that's impossible.
Also, if the asteroid is 500m wide and is traveling a 60 km/h, the energy from the impact is equal to the energy released by all the nuclear weapons on earth, so its nearly impossible to survive after an impact like this.

Member Avatar for stultuske

how many? Will I.T. survive?

are you kidding?
when the meteor crashes, the sun toasts us all, they finally drop 'the bomb', there'll be nothing but cockroaches. And possibly Windows OS, but, when I think of it ... Aren't they related somehow? :)

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lol @ 'nothing but cockroaches. And possibly windows OS'

what i am actually worried about is heat from the main solar flare chamber of the sun finally aiming at the earth for the first time in thousands of years(the sun spins). that heat will not burn us, but the magnetoshpere will transfer the heat to core. and this will cause all sorts of problems(polar ice melting, etc). i will be watching the northern lights in December for sure, if i can. :)

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42

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good as a number as any!

Member Avatar for stultuske

skilly: 42 is not a number, it's the meaning of life :)

commented: ... the universe, and everything ;) +0
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that's not a question!

-edit- i read the first and last of those 6 Douglas Adams' books. the question is...silly.
someday i want to read the four books in between.

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