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by RichardHeart 3427 days ago
You could invest the money you spent in your bunker into helping avoid needing a bunker. Elon Musk wants interplanetary redundancy, which to some degree, increases the chance that we die here, for whatever money goes into leaving, could have went into protecting what we have.

I'm ok with a chance of being extincted if it increases the chance I don't have to rot and die a slow death like so many of my forefathers. Screw redundancy, save this planet.

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How do you propose protecting earth from asteroids, solar storms and other cosmic dangers?
Asteroids: Detect, and nudge slightly off course while they're quite far away. https://lifeboat.com/ex/asteroid.shield

Solar storms: http://www.space.com/9484-nasa-solar-shield-protect-power-gr...

I'm roughly 100 percent to rot as meat in less than a century, so I'm concerned with fixing that one first, so I have time to fix the others. The genie is granting wishes, and I'm requesting more wishes.