If an asteroid were to destroy earth , which organisation or group is responsible for saving the planet?

Question

Do we even have an organisation or international body appointed to save the planet if a prodigiously large asteroid were to hit the earth?

Answer 1

i'd say nasa. we should all fly out to mars or something

Answer 2

There is no "saving the planet." A sufficiently large asteroid would destroy virtually all plant and animal life that depends on photosynthesis. Humans would be done for. Even if we knew about it years in advance, it's still unlikely we could do anything to stop it with our present technology. Some have estimated we would need at least ten years to divert an asteroid. The big problem is that it's very hard to spot these things until they're on your doorstep. Imagine knowing a year in advance the exact day life was going to end, but being helpless to change it. If anything, we'd need an organization to prevent the world from collapsing into chaos and anarchy.

Theoretically, If you had enough time to prepare, you could go underground for the years it would take the air to clear, but you'd need to stockpile huge amounts of fresh water, food, have some way to purify the air, and you'd need a diverse enough gene pool to continue the species without inbreeding. You'd also need provisions to *try* to restart if you emerged - seeds, etc. Who knows what the earth would be like. The skies might rain acid for years. There might be tremendous volcanic activity, earthquakes, or an ice age. It could be hell on earth, not even worth trying to live in.

The good news is that certain microscopic sea creatures that live off nutrients spewed from underground thermal vents would survive. Bacteria would live. Possibly a small number of above ground scavenger-like life forms might make it. Certainly some insects. It's hard to say for certain. The climate would change so drastically that whatever life survived would have to be adapted to very harsh conditions, and it would take millions of years for evolution to get us back to anything resembling the earth we know now. The next dominant life form might be a highly evolved bee, or a roach.

What would really suck is if you were up in the International Space Station, and NASA couldn't get you back in time. You'd see it all happen, but be helpless to do anything about it. You'd eventually die, knowing you were the last human being alive.

Get out the cyanide capsule!

Answer 3

I liked your question a lot. Makes me think. It's too bad, all we can do is speculate. If the earth is aware, she must be aware in a way that we cannot comprehend. Could it be that she's the one in charge, and she has been this whole time? Maybe she led us to "pollute" the earth? I've always considered the thought that maybe we aren't really destroying the earth. What if we're creating all these strange new materials, that could eventually help life to evolve. Materials to act as a catalyst. Think about what life forms might live here in 20,000 years! The strong, and most adaptable creatures will survive, but they will surely survive in a form foreign to how we currently know them. How could we ever fully understand awareness? We can attempt to understand our own awareness. We can consider how other creatures are aware. How does a bumble bee experience the world? And a kangaroo? And a blue whale, and what about bacteria and bats and butterflys? Some creatures understand everything to be vibrations, others see colors we cannot, still others use sound to visualize the world. Is the earth aware? Could be.

Answer 4

no one. even though we are aware of the threat there is no national of global programs to counter the threat, remote as it is. NASA does not have the money, the time or the equipment to deal with asteroid strikes. you can't nuke asteroids because hundreds and thousands of air bursting fragments are just as deadly. you have to get right out there, deep into the solar system and shepherd them away. it costs too much to do that. no politician will say your tax has to go up to stop asteroids. so all we can do is leave a message for the next intelligent life form that evolves after we're destroyed.

Answer 5

How about the equivalent of an "X-prize" to the first private company that comes up with a successful means of deflecting asteroid/comet orbits?

Do this and a solution will be found almost overnight. Rely on NASA or other such government agency and humankind is doomed.

Answer 6

sincerely all the organisation around the world is completely scatter without a sense of uniting, lets just say NASA for example are just too busy locating the asteroid and planning to ask for more financial support to send astronauts to another planet to collect more sample for their personal collection, and UN people are just too busy argueing amongst themselves about their individualism like childrens in the kindergarden, and when it comes with the rich and famous, there are nothing more important in this world than getting richer and arrogantly in love with themselves.
just pray that you may live your life without having to see the asteroid coming at you and hopefully wishes that your childrens, and grand-childrens wouldn't see it coming or else they might just wonder what are doing to prevent such thing from happening to them.
truly i wish that all the powerful and rich organisation around the world would come united and build an orbital ring around the earth that might not only protect us from asteroid disasters but with the possibility to avoid casualty from natural disasters as well.

Answer 7

And the point of saving the planet (well, the humans walking around on it) would be...?

Wipe us out, what do we actually achieve, apart from loving & talking to eachother? (We are killing; eachother, animal species, the air, and the ground we use to grow crops for food.
I sometimes think that there is so much sh1t & hate in this world, that a nuke on every town, in every country, may be a good thing.) Sorry, just having a negative moment!

I'm happy to express love for my fellow man, without any religion, gender, or care.
If I am to be called 'gay' 'infidel' 'sinner', or whatever, how many of you are? (For those of you still in "Stereotype Vision", I am a Brit, White, Hetro, Single Parent, Male).
If you hate one of 'us', then surely you hate ALL of us, for are we not of the same family - are we all not human?
We are ALL sisters, brothers, fathers & mothers, of the human race!

Answer 8

The national space agencies of all countries that have such agencies will cooperate in finding the best solution to divert or destroy the Asteroid, if they fail and the world basically destroyed, international cooperation will become irrelevant

Answer 9

No single organization or authority would be able to tackle such a immense task. NASA is just another state administartion full of buraucracy and practically no authority. An international coallition of the best scientists and engineers would have been the best option for mankind!

Answer 10

Even satellites of the days have tracking down stations all over the world. These data are necessary to take decisions. When an occurrence of the magnitude you have expressed it is every tracking stations job, to correlate findings and act based on that. Already examples are there in our space stations where more than one country is involved.
VR

Answer 11

i assume NASA from US...but not sure if the asteroid was already in close range and NASA cant do much, then maybe some health care organisations, religious groups, reconstruction organisations for re organising the saved and re creating homes for the people saved...