Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
One day a big rock will slam into the Earth and wipe out practically
all life, again, so why are we arguing about whether or not to colonise
the Moon and Mars?
There's an asteroid racing towards us called Apophis - after the Egyptian mythical demon of evil and destruction - which might slam into the Earth in 2036. Scientists are offering a $US50,000 reward for anyone who can figure out how to track it, so we know whether we need to divert it or blow it out of the sky. Not that we know how to do that, but we'd like some advanced warning if we need to figure it out and Bruce Willis is too busy to help out.
The chances of Apophis striking the Earth are "very slim" but, even if it doesn't hit us, eventually another one will. Mass extinctions have happened before and they'll happen again. It's not science fiction, it's a numbers game. Every species has an asteroid out there with its name written on it - just ask the dinosaurs. With so much debris hurtling around the solar system, the law of averages says every now and then we'll cope a direct hit. We don't want to be here when that happens - well, at least not all of us.
Just the other day Stephen Hawking was calling for us as a species to get our act together and develop a matter/anti-matter propulsion system so we can get out into the universe before the Earth goes belly up. Is anyone listening? Like usual, the cool kids are off having fun whilst expecting us nerds to do their home work.
When the day comes to leave the third rock from the Sun, do we really need to take the beautiful people with us? I say you only get on the space ship if you can name Newton's three laws of motion and at least one Ferengi rule of acquisition. That'll wipe the smile of their pretty little faces.
David Bass
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